So what is DB? Design Biology or DB is my shorthand for this idea: biology looks less like an accident and more like an engineered system. It treats living things the way an investigator treats a complex artifact, by asking what the parts do, how the information is stored, and what it would take for the system to work at all.
Here’s the outline of what I mean.
Design Biology starts with the universe and the body. I believe the universe is ordered, lawful, and finely tuned for life. I also see the human body as an integrated, goal-directed system. It has interlocking subsystems, error-checking, repair, feedback control, and layered information storage. When I look at things like DNA coding, cellular machines, embryonic development, and the way organs coordinate, I see the same patterns we see in designed systems: codes, constraints, interfaces, and control loops.