Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. |
If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make. |
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. |
They aren't going to put Kodak out of business any time soon, |
We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited. |