Jim Collins
9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2019 by Jim Collins · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 17, 2019 positive
Jim Collins: Engineering models have predictive value without mechanism knowledge
“An engineer can do remarkably well in many instances with little, if any, understanding of mechanism. And that we'll get after a black box. You can represent a model that gives you some sense of relation between the input and output of, say, going back to our …”
Jan 17, 2019
Jan 17, 2019
Collins: Leading molecular biologists insisted synthetic genetic toggle switches were impossible
“We had talked to about six or seven very serious molecular biologists who told us this couldn't happen, this couldn't work. They said for it to work, you're going to have to have a very tight off state, two very tight off states. That's going to be impossible.…”
Jan 17, 2019
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Jan 17, 2019 bullish
Collins: Synthetic bio will drive carbon capture and coral restoration within a decade
“I think climate is really just beginning to excite the community and broadly environmental issues on two counts. One is in what way could we use algae and other organisms to pull more carbon out of the atmosphere? Can we help reverse the trend on using biology…”
Jan 17, 2019 negative
Collins: Single-gene knockout attribution is absurd from a systems standpoint
“I maintain that in almost every biology experiment paper I've read, they've never had the controls that I'd like to see. Which is the idea that you can knock out a gene and that what's lacking and now can be attributed to the gene is absurd from a system stand…”
Jan 17, 2019