Synthetic biology

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Synthetic biology.

Talks about Synthetic biology

7:15

Jim Collins

How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics

Posted May 2020
14:47

Sara-Jane Dunn

The next software revolution: programming biological cells

Posted Nov 2019
16:36

Rob Reid

How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it

Posted Jun 2019
10:19

David Baker

5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

Posted Jun 2019
18:05

Juan Enriquez

The age of genetic wonder

Posted Feb 2019
13:56

Floyd E. Romesberg

The radical possibilities of man-made DNA

Posted Nov 2018
15:53

Jennifer Doudna

How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA

Posted Oct 2015
17:35

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

Posted Oct 2015
15:57

Siddharthan Chandran

Can the damaged brain repair itself?

Posted Feb 2014
14:52

Molly Stevens

A new way to grow bone

Posted Feb 2014
9:02

Andras Forgacs

Leather and meat without killing animals

Posted Sep 2013
17:36

Michael Archer

How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

Posted Jun 2013
14:40

Francis Collins

We need better drugs — now

Posted Mar 2013
3:06

Lee Cronin

Print your own medicine

Posted Feb 2013
10:08

Ellen Jorgensen

Biohacking — you can do it, too

Posted Jan 2013
13:57

Hadyn Parry

Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Posted Jan 2013
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Exclusive articles about Synthetic biology

The ongoing quest to build life from scratch

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