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Zaine comments on What are you working on? December 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Zaine 04 December 2012 04:28:14AM 0 points [-]

If I may be so rude, what are you ultimately interested in doing in synthetic biology?

Comment author: atorm 06 December 2012 12:21:58AM 1 point [-]

Make awesome things. My PI doesn't like that answer either, but synthetic biology seems like the area with the most potential to build interesting things with a biology background, which is what I have. I got into biology without properly exploring the job opportunities. If I had, I probably would have done engineering. But synthetic biology seems to be a field looking for mad scientists who want to solve problems by noticing how different biological parts can feed into each other, and it seems far more entertaining than anything else I'm qualified to do.