Laurence Yang

Two months had passed since Becky had joined MidFerment Corp. as a Computational Biologist. Her project charter for the biotherapeutics titer improvement using active learning, data-driven, and mechanistic modeling had been approved. The project was moving well, with the first round of experiment designs being built and tested. Becky was

A new beginning It was Becky's first week at MidFerment Corp., which she'd joined as a computational biologist in a small team of five, including herself, within a larger organization of around 200 employees, mostly wet lab. She'd been headhunted for the position after

When I developed algorithms as a scientist at Intrexon Corp. in 2012 and I was stuck with a programming problem, I'd search Stack Overflow for the green accepted answer. Today, when I'm stuck with a programming problem, I ask Perplexity (with Claude or ChatGPT as the

Context Economic challenge One of the big challenges for precision fermentation that is shared globally is price parity, or technoeconomics. In the case of precision fermented (PF) food, 30% of US consumers would pay 25% more for PF products (Hartman Group, 2023). In Germany, 14% of consumers are willing to