«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,» says Andrew Hessel, a self - described futurist and biotechnology
catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D
design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring
synthetic biology applications in recent years.
Dr. Appel's primary areas of expertise are thermochemical measurements, electrochemistry,
catalyst design and
synthetic chemistry, small molecule spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry.