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By Christina Agapakis
| Grow by Ginkgo Verified
DISCLAIMER: This is an editorial publication, and the views and opinions expressed herein, including those expressed by Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (“Ginkgo”) employees, former employees and other authors are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Ginkgo. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: This publication includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws.
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Was Ozempic discovered thanks to “silly” research?

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By Christina Agapakis
| Substack
Recently I’ve been hearing my science friends telling the same story over and over. Galvanized by the catastrophic cuts to American science, they reach for stories to show the value of basic research, to help us imagine the innovations that we’ll be missing out on if we cut all the stuff that a lawmaker or DOGE staffer could consider silly or useless.
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Biology has a design language and we know how to learn it

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By Jake Wintermute, Christina Agapakis, Patrick Boyle
| Substack
In the early 1920s, factories were mass-producing furniture that was cheap but ugly. People wanted beautiful furniture, and artisans knew how to craft it, but their techniques didn’t translate to the assembly line and so were impossible to scale. At the Bauhaus School under Walter Gropius, designers learned to translate between the artisanal and industrial ways of working. The Bauhaus developed a design language for creating objects that were both beautiful and manufacturable.
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