"The two largest business opportunities on the planet today are AI and longevity."
- Peter Diamandis, co-founder and executive chairman of Fountain Life

"I truly think that the merging of nature and humanity through the lens of synthetic biology will be the biggest transformative leap of the next couple hundred years."
- Ben Lamm, founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences

"Nature does things better and more efficiently than the machines we've made in the past. Look at the energy efficiency of the hummingbird. Biology is just better."
- Ron Voglewede, group director of sustainable retail at Walmart

Today, we regard strep throat, a disease that killed around one-fifth of those infected prior to antibiotics, a minor inconvenience. In the future, we may look at cancer the same way. Biotechnology is enabling a deeper understanding of human health, a new set of tools to discover and deliver treatments, and a revolutionary ability for people to map and edit their own DNA. Ultimately, today’s breakthroughs could extend our tomorrows, empowering us to live longer and better.

The products of the bio-industrial revolution can be both engineered by humans and entirely natural in composition. We can mirror nature's efficiency and elegance even as we mobilize enormous business applications. To bring about this future, emerging innovations must overcome the most significant challenge of the growing biotech economy: achieving scale.

An infusion of life may be the best treatment for the planet's damaged ecosystems. Bioengineered systems can remove pollutants to heal the Earth, and looking forward, we can preserve the planet by remodeling the ways we fuel ourselves and our machines.