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In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

That success stands as the most prominent example of the power of synthetic biology, a field whose possibilities have excited me since I first heard the term more than 15 years ago.

Synthetic biology is a discipline that allows the design and construction of metabolic and regulatory pathways, circuits, and networks that can be controlled.

Synthetic biology is reshaping the agro-economy by enabling alternative means of producing goods and cleaner agricultural practices.

Synthetic biology has several useful applications, in conservation for example, to restore biodiversity and confer disease and stress resistance, in bioremediation to clean pollutants from the air and ...

The paper argues that those who lead the semisynbio revolution—the fusion of synthetic biology and semiconductor technology—will define the next era of intelligence.

Advances in the synthetic biology field are allowing an expansion beyond small gene networks towards larger biological programs that hold promise for a wide range of applications, including ...