Biology's Industrial Revolution

The first industrial revolution taught us to shape dead matter. The next one is teaching us to collaborate with living matter. Nina's co-authored TED Book, Super Cells: Building with Biology, mapped this territory early — self-healing infrastructure, textiles grown rather than woven, buildings seeded rather than built — and her company turns the thesis into clinical reality every day, growing skeletal tissue in bioreactors.

For audiences in manufacturing, materials, design, and sustainability, this talk reframes biology as a production platform with fundamentally different economics: products that assemble themselves, repair themselves, and are born rather than made. Nina shows where biofabrication is already commercial, where it's five years out, and how incumbent industries can position themselves for the shift.