A look at the the emerging field of Synthetic Biology. According to Dr. Endy, "We're going from looking at the living world as only coming from nature, to a subset of the living world being produced by engineers, who design and build hopefully useful living artifacts according to our specifications" (MITWorld).

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Drew Endy

For more details, visit Marc Pelletier's blog at http://futuresinbiotech.blogspot.com/.

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And also thanks to the band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!