According to the new director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, biology will soon bring us materials like nothing we've seen. She says: "Biology is just exploding out there. We're actually reaching a level where you find yourself imagining questions that a year ago you couldn't even formulate."

"Biology is just exploding out there. We're actually reaching a level where you find yourself imagining questions that a year ago you couldn't even formulate. There's a whole realm out there of biological materials that have been developing because nature has needed to produce them. If you work on something for about a billion years, you can be sure it's going to work pretty well. "

An interesting interview with Susan Lindquist