The Future Is Synthetic Biology

Abstract

Increasingly, synthetic biological systems and molecules are being used to drive biological applications and discovery. At the 2018 Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Cell's Andrew Rennekamp met up with John Glass, Jim Collins, and Floyd Romesberg to discuss synthetic biology as a discipline and to get their take on where it's headed. Annotated excerpts from this conversation are presented below, and the full conversation is available with the article online.