51. Programming Life: Andrew Hessel on Synthetic Biology, Backing Up Humans and the Code Behind Death

What if your body is just software waiting to be updated?⁠Andrew Hessel⁠ has spent decades at the frontier of synthetic biology — a field that treats DNA like code, cells like processors, and diseases like bugs to be patched. In this conversation, we go deep.We talk about programming life from scratch, designing personalized cancer drugs for one single patient, and his company Chromosome 24 — a plan to back up human beings the way we back up our phones.Biology, DNA, viruses as USB sticks, AI-designed proteins, headless bodyoids, human cloning... and yes, we talk about death too.This one will mess with your head. In the best way.___Full episodes: ⁠⁠https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes⁠⁠Episode link + article: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/51-what-if-you-could-clone-yourself-with-andrew-hesselFollow Andrew on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhessel/⁠Mizter Rad on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariorueda/⁠