Move Over, Jony Ive — Biologists Are the Next Rock Start Designers

November 19, 2015

(Wired) – This creative practice, which falls under the umbrella term synthetic biology, views DNA as something to be manipulated and rearranged. Proponents see a day when biologists can build organisms capable of anything imaginable with a degree of reproducibility typically reserved for engineering. In this new world where biotech companies like Ginkgo and Amyris and Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics play, biologists become designers working with one of the most powerful substrates imaginable: life.