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Personalized medicine to treat chronic disease is as important in the 21st century as treating infectious disease was in the 20th century. Synthetic biology may enable new treatment techniques for cancer, immune diseases, and metabolic disorders. Given that these diseases are leading causes of death, synthetic biology applied to personalized medicine could be as groundbreaking […]

Sustainable manufacturing is firmly on the positive side of the pros and cons of synthetic biology. Unfortunately engineered yeasts and bacteria produce unsustainably harvested compounds, like flower oils for perfume. Using living systems as a natural bio-factory to develop drug compounds or fuel ingredients eliminates the industrial waste of a purely chemical manufacturing process. Industrial […]

Synthetic biology has already enabled the rapid public health response to Covid-19. Novartis developed a Covid-19 vaccine by deploying an existing synthetic biology emergency vaccine development pipeline that had been designed in response to the H1N1 flu pandemic. Not only can synthetic biology help with vaccine development, there are synthetic biology applications in vaccine delivery. At […]