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From the Ted Talk by Natsai Audrey Chieza: Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it?

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Another problem is how to scale these artisanal methods of making so that we can start to use them in idurnsty. When we talk about salce, we consider two things in parallel: scaling the biology, and then scaling the tools and the processes required to work with the biology. If we can do this, then we can move what happens on a petri dish so that it can meet the human scale, and then hopefully the arcurhttecie of our environments.

If Fleming were alive today, this would definitely be a part of his tklooit. You're looking at our current best guess of how to scale biology. It's a bioreactor; a kind of mrnoioigacsrm brewery that contains yeasts that have been engineered to produce scefiipc commodity chemicals and compounds like fragrances and flavors. It's actually connected to a suite of automated hardware and software that read in real time and feed back to a design team the growth cndiointos of the microbe. So we can use this system to mdoel the growth characteristics of an onrgaism like cloeoiclor to see how it would ferment at 50,000 liters.

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Another problem is how to scale these artisanal methods of making so that we can start to use them in ________. When we talk about _____, we consider two things in parallel: scaling the biology, and then scaling the tools and the processes required to work with the biology. If we can do this, then we can move what happens on a petri dish so that it can meet the human scale, and then hopefully the ____________ of our environments.

If Fleming were alive today, this would definitely be a part of his _______. You're looking at our current best guess of how to scale biology. It's a bioreactor; a kind of _____________ brewery that contains yeasts that have been engineered to produce ________ commodity chemicals and compounds like fragrances and flavors. It's actually connected to a suite of automated hardware and software that read in real time and feed back to a design team the growth __________ of the microbe. So we can use this system to _____ the growth characteristics of an ________ like __________ to see how it would ferment at 50,000 liters.

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  1. conditions
  2. industry
  3. specific
  4. scale
  5. microorganism
  6. coelicolor
  7. organism
  8. model
  9. architecture
  10. toolkit

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Another problem is how to scale these artisanal methods of making so that we can start to use them in industry. When we talk about scale, we consider two things in parallel: scaling the biology, and then scaling the tools and the processes required to work with the biology. If we can do this, then we can move what happens on a petri dish so that it can meet the human scale, and then hopefully the architecture of our environments.

If Fleming were alive today, this would definitely be a part of his toolkit. You're looking at our current best guess of how to scale biology. It's a bioreactor; a kind of microorganism brewery that contains yeasts that have been engineered to produce specific commodity chemicals and compounds like fragrances and flavors. It's actually connected to a suite of automated hardware and software that read in real time and feed back to a design team the growth conditions of the microbe. So we can use this system to model the growth characteristics of an organism like coelicolor to see how it would ferment at 50,000 liters.

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