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                                   A sample from a
                                   Ginkgo Bioworks’
                                    bioreactor that
                                  ferments genetically
                                    modified yeast.

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                                                                          computers are great at handling information, but if it’s
                                                                          matter you need to manipulate, you can’t beat nature.
                                                                          The problem is getting nature to play along—and that’s
                                                                          where Ginkgo Bioworks comes in. A microbe is just “a
                                                                          self­replicating assembler that runs on digital code,” says
                                                                          Jason Kelly, the Boston­based startup’s CEO. If you
                                                                          rewrite the code, by splicing new segments of DNA into  j
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