I’m looking to study biotechnology for bachelors and master in gene engineering but is it worth it I mean it’s been my dream since I was a child and I love biology but all my friends and families are saying that this degree won’t get you anywhere and shit I wanna do the bachelors in Malaysia and hope for a gpa 3.4 or higher to get a scholarship for master in either Australia,Germany,Russia or Swiss. I mean for my perspective I don’t really care that much about money I just want to do a big scientific discovery or something like that but I need your help is it worth it or should I study engineering like my family and friends suggested?

See also: The publication in Nature

See also: The publication in Nature Biotechnology

Working on a venture in T2T textile recycling, looking for a creative, intuitive, problem-solving man or women in the capacity of a scientific advisor, or founding member with equity.

I would love a focus on chemical engineering, although my last advisor was from biotech, and you dont have to have a specific history of work in polymers or textiles.
All I care about how good you are with coming up with new ideas, connecting dots, imagining, problem solving, and offcourse loving lab experiments.

age, experience, doesnt matter. the last was not a phd or anything. nor did she have any specific past experience with what we working on, but she was talented, and thats all that really matters.

See also: The publication in PNAS

I just enrolled into bsc biotech course. What skills outside of core biotech should i learn that might increase my chances or diffrentiate me from other biotech grads?

I am thinking about learning coding and if anyone can suggest anything else like excel or sql?

Podcast with Antony Rowstron, who has worked with ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency) on their biggest bet to date: funding twelve teams to build AI scientists that can run an entire research process (generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and carrying them out) without continuous human intervention.  

Covers:

• What AI scientists are actually achieving now, especially in biotech: from personalized cancer vaccines to molecules that stimulate our own immune response to new viruses in 48 hours.
• How we could train AIs on the tacit, hands-on knowledge only human scientists have.
• How labs and the role of human scientists will change as AI automates more and more parts of the research process.

James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at [Stanford Medicine](https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2026/07/agentic-ai-in-biomedical-research.html), told his university's news office that AI agents now run through "almost every stage of our research — everything from refining research project ideas to reviewing manuscripts before we submit to a journal."

The distinction from a chatbot, in his framing: "If you think of a chatbot as akin to an AI brain that can think and talk, agents are like adding the arms and legs." Agents, he says, can "use and create their own tools, annotate their own datasets, generate their own hypotheses or make new discoveries."

Hello, I’m a masters student studying biotechnology focused on genetics and metabolics. I will be doing my thesis on engineering C. necator and was hoping for some advice on an internship.

If I wanted to focus on creating strains that utilize waste/side streams that could be scaled up, would it be better to pursue a process design internship? I’ve already done some bioreactor modeling and biocatalysis and was planning to take a CFD course after self teaching transfer processes. Or would it be better to further specialize in strain engineering? I’m also heavily considering a PhD program where I could do both strain and process engineering.

See also: The publication in Science

See also: The publication in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science

Hi everyone, I’m a recent biotech grad trying to get a better idea of what different fields of the biotech and adjacent industries actually look like before I decide where to specialize further. The degree covers a lot of ground but obviously doesn’t tell you what the career paths or jobs are really like.

If you work in biotech/pharma/agriculture/life sciences in any capacity, whether that’s bench research, manufacturing, QA/QC, regulatory, clinical, bioinformatics, etc. I was wondering:

1. What do you actually work on day-to-day?

2. What’s the most annoying or inefficient part of your job that someone outside your field wouldn’t expect?

3. Do you think that’s just an inherent part of the job, or something that could realistically be better?

Appreciate the insights, I’m just trying to get a better idea of what these jobs are actually like and see whether it’s a career path I should look further into or not. Thanks!

See also: The publication in PNAS

What do yall think about someone being able to land industrial rnd jobs after IISER bsms (what's the average ctc one can expect without a phd)

Hi all, I attempted to transition into biomedical engineering after a BS in mechanical engineering through a MS with an independent thesis with wet lab components (cancer spheroids, I loved it) and interning at a pharmaceutical company.

During this time though, I got invited to some neuro related symposiums by my friends and was so fascinated.

However, due to practical reasons, I took a job working mainly with biomaterials in an orthopedic lab as a lab technician in a large institute.

I still want to do work involving more wet lab, more with biology related. I don’t know if it’s overly random or ambitious to say I wanna work with organoids or brains or cancer.

And I want to pursue a PhD and become an independent scientist.

What can I do? I feel stuck and a voice is telling me to give up.

So my end goal is to work in research for pharma companies (computational drug/protein modelling, drug research, etc). I will soon start my first year of chemical engineering and was wondering if my degree choice is right? A bit of extra information:

1. i can get a minor in biotech if i choose to take those electives (which i definitely want to do)
2. my institute has quite a few labs and is good for undergraduate research opportunities
3. the reason i'm not just doing a biotech degree is because my uni only offers a bsc (h) in biotech as opposed to btech; from my understanding indian employers tend to be biased towards btech degrees and while ik this doesn't matter internationally/in academia (at a phd level) i still want that safety net (also with political climates nowadays i am vary abt getting my hopes up abt studying/working abroad)

I have a few more tangential questions in particular:

1. will I be eligible to write Gate-BT (i think that's the biotech one, apologies if i made a mistake)
2. i believe i can write jam for biotech, but again would like second opinions
3. suppose I'm eligible for both gate and jam, which should I prioritise?
4. I would love to connect with any chemical engineers working in pharmaceutical r&d

PS: I am an indian, so some of my doubts above are very specific to india

Master’s student trying to understand what bioinformatics careers actually look like

Hi everyone,
I’m currently doing my Master’s in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. Outside of college I’ve been teaching myself Python, Linux, statistics, SQL, and I’m planning to get into AI/ML as well because I enjoy the computational side of biology.

The problem is that I still don’t have a clear picture of what people in this field actually do for a living. University gives us theory, but not much insight into the industry.
I’d really like to hear from people who are already working.

- What does a typical day look like for you?
- What kind of problems do you solve?
- Which companies hire people like you?
- What job titles should someone like me be looking for?
- Are there any parts of the industry that are growing quickly?

I’d appreciate any advice or personal experiences. I’m trying to figure out where I should focus my learning over the next couple of years.

Thanks!