This piece was written by Alex Danco, creator of Dancoland.
Last Friday Ginkgo Bioworks went public through a SPAC merger.
It was a joyful day for the synthetic biology community, and for an ideological movement, best described as "solarpunk aesthetic." In contrast to today's parade of software IPOs, which are usually great companies but not particularly …
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