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

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

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

Drawing inspiration from nature, synthetic biology offers exciting opportunities to transform the future of medicine.

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.