![]() Just as arranging zeroes and ones enabled all types of information to be communicated digitally, changing the genetic code-A, T, C, and G, which stand for adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine, the four nucleotides that form DNA-alters biological systems. Already, syn-bio has spawned an industry of science-based start-ups that are trying to alter conventional products and processes, transforming the material world as we know it.īy the end of the decade, syn-bio could be used extensively in manufacturing industries that account for more than a third of global output-a shade under $30 trillion in terms of value. Half a gram of cattle muscle could create as much as 4.4 billion pounds of beef-more than Mexico consumes in a year. Companies can engineer and manufacture an infinite quantity of things, cell by cell, from scratch. Supply might no longer be constrained by the availability of raw materials. ![]() Microorganisms can, in theory, make many of the things that industrial processes currently manufacture, so syn-bio-the design and engineering of biological systems to create and improve processes and products-offers new ways of producing almost everything that human beings consume, from flavors and fabrics to foods and fuels. Biology is usually defined as the study of living things and life itself, but syn-bio has turned the science into the manufacturing paradigm of the future. It may be a phenomenon without a commonly accepted appellation, but synthetic biology-or syn-bio, as we call it-has become a disruptive force that is birthing the Bio Economy. Technology, Media, and Telecommunications.
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