Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Bethencourt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Ryan Bethencourt.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Ryan Bethencourt is an American scientist, entrepreneur, and biohacker best known for his work as co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth, Partner at Babel Ventures and cofounder and former Program Director at IndieBio, a biology accelerator and early stage seed fund. Bethencourt was head of life sciences at the XPRIZE foundation, a co-founder and CEO of Berkeley Biolabs, a biotech accelerator, and Halpin Neurosciences, an ALS therapeutics-focused biotech company. Bethencourt co-founded Counter Culture Labs, a citizen science nonprofit, and Sudo Room, a hacker space based in downtown Oakland, California.

American - Scientist | Born: March 18, 1979

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I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.

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Biohackers want to tinker; do fun science; and, in the process, accelerate the pace of biotech innovation.

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We'll continue to heal human bodies through biotechnology but we'll also increasingly feed, clothe and house the world through bioengineered systems. Ultimately, there's no reason why live animals should be used in any part of our food or goods chain and we're working to make that a reality.

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The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

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We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.

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We're at the beginning of the digitization and automation of biotech.

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We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

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People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.

Ryan Bethencourt

I believe within five to 10 years most larger corporations will switch to greener industrial enzymes, not just for the environment but also for their bottom line.

Ryan Bethencourt

When deciding whether to fund and build a company, we start from basic principles and because many of the businesses and products that our companies create are a complete novelty to us, them and the market, we have to do the math.

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In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.

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Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms.

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IndieBio's capital, facilities and deep mentoring by a network of biotech specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google's, Facebook's and Instagram's of biology.

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Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.

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Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

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Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.

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Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

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The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

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Biology is greener and, at scale, should be incredibly cost-effective: The cost of goods sold should be little more than the sugar water needed to brew almost anything.

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Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.

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Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Bethencourt

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