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In the latest edition of The Moonshot Podcast newsletter, Astro Teller, host and Captain of Moonshots, talks to two innovators who are harnessing the power of biology to transform how we eat and what we make.  First up, Astro is joined by Bradley Zamft, CEO of X spinout Heritable Agriculture, who discusses how humanity is in a race to grow more food to feed a growing population, and how technology can help us do it. Next, Relly Brandman from X project A-Life joins Astro to talk about the the incredible potential that cells have to make things—from the alcohol in your beer, to the enzymes in your laundry detergent, to the medicines in your cabinet—and how a better understanding of those cells could transform manufacturing. Read on to learn more about how innovations in gene sequencing and computing have the potential to turn seeds and cells into the factories of the future.