Adrian Woolfson

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Co-founder and CEO of Genyro, Inc.

Personal website - adrianwoolfson.com

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linkedin.com/in/adrian-woolfson-970b091

substack.com/@adrianwoolfson

Projects:

Book "On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence", Adrian Woolfson, 2026

 

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Adrian Woolfson on Authoring Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence w/ Luke Robert Mason

Feb 18, 2026

Geneticist Adrian Woolfson shares his insights on designing life with artificial biological intelligence, the possibility of creating new species, and the responsibility that comes with rewriting the rules of evolution.

Adrian Woolfson is the co-founder of Genyro, a California-based biotechnology company specialising in synthetic genome design and construction. Born in London, he studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford, and was formerly the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Life Without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics. He has authored over 160 scientific papers, book chapters, reviews, and patents, and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Science magazine.