A New Lab Is Brewing Microbes to Create Makeup and Medicines
A New Lab Is Brewing Microbes to Create Makeup and Medicines
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 12, 20196m 28s
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Show Notes
On the third floor of a back building on Verily’s South San Francisco campus, ten white machines emit a low-pitched hum. Atop each one sits a plastic container so jammed with tubes and sensors it looks like a protein shake on life support. Inside, beige-colored broth bubbles away while tiny high-res cameras capture the frothy footage and stream it to the cloud.
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