In vitro biological experiments can scale to 10^14 to 10^17 different variants, while experiments involving living cells scale to billions, enabling systematic testing of biological hypotheses at scale far exceeding traditional experimental capacity and this is the primary method by which complicated biological systems will be understood

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George Church

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In vitro things you can do probably on the order of 10^14, 10^17. Things that involve cells are typically in the billions. But this is how we're going to get inroads into the very complicated biological systems.

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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George ChurchDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:40:03 AM

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