Interview recorded live at CERN on 17 November 2022 during the second edition of Sparks! The Serendipity Forum at CERN. #CERNSparks Andrew Hessel joined Bruno Giussani live from California, to discuss the ways in which genomics will change our lives and the economy in a similar way to how they were changed by the digital revolution over the last 30 years. Andrew is a microbiologist, an entrepreneur and the co-author of a book called “The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology.”