If solved
Designer organisms on demand
Microbes and cells are designed to order for medicines, materials, fuels and clean-up.
Open in the interactive tree →With design tools that work and a cell that can be built from a parts list, engineers could program organisms for new tasks the way they program software. Recoded organisms with virus-proof genetic codes would add built-in safety.
What it brings
- Biofactories for drugs, food and materials
- Microbes that capture carbon or break down plastic
- Cells with built-in biosafety locks