From what I've heard from people doing biology experiments, the limiting factor there is cleaning lab equipment, physically setting things up, waiting for things that need to be waited for etc. Until we get dark robots that can do these things 24/7 without exhaustion, biology acceleration will be further behind than software engineering.

Software engineering is at the intersection of being heavy on manipulating information and lightly-regulated. There's no other industry of this kind that I can think of.