We think kindergarteners should hack biology the way they do Tinkertoys, there should be more biotech startups than Starbucks, and we want to do for science communications what Disney did for cartoons.
We picked a platypus as our mascot because it's the weirdest possible animal -- a crazy, mixed up egg-laying mammal that adapts and makes it work. Just when you think it's one thing, it defies categorization. That's us.