After immersing himself in the gerontology literature, he soon perceived a gap in the underlying science: "There weren't enough people drawing ideas together from different parts of the field and trying to synthesize things.
"It wasn't just that he could cite the papers, but he could synthesize things--he could take six papers and put them all together to make sense out of them, which is [a skill] that takes a long time to develop," Austad says.
This includes things like synthesizing podcasts, reading the news (think: Alexa's "Flash Briefing"), TV dub-ins, voices for characters in video games and more.
Synthesizing means taking all those things you've been listening to, deciphering signal (10% of it) from noise (90% of it), and adjusting course based on new points of view or new information.
Experts says the discovery, reported in the current Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, will lead to the development of a new family of DNA-based enzymes capable of performing new chemical reactions that could be useful in synthesizing new drugs, among other things.
Instead of synthesizing these disparate elements into things tidy and deliverable, however, felted ceramic totems (his Once upon a time there were human beings series) and the aforementioned steel sculptures (We Have Agency) exalt their differences.
CRISPR is already being refined to make large numbers of genetic changes to cells with increasing precision, but to recode various points throughout the genome, "it might actually be lower-cost to just synthesize the whole thing," he says.
Comprehensive analytic knowledge then consists in reconstruction or re-composition of a thing by means of synthesizing the perspectives.
There are three things involved in engineering therapeutic tools, namely, synthesizing nonlinear dynamical networks, characterizing gene regulation and developing intervention strategies to modify dynamical behavior.
Complexity science researches things from the whole first, and then details gradually, synthesizing at last.
