Nature no longer calls the shots with new advances in a field where technology meets biology giving us new medicines, sustainable jet fuel, lab-grown meat and more. Synthetic Biology allows us to engineer living cells and it's attracting billions of dollars in investment, including a big player in the bio-fuels space here in New Zealand. Ted Anton is a Professor of English and an award winning science writer who introduces us to the humans behind this science-fiction like world. His new book tells the stories of people on the frontier of discovery and the policy makers trying to keep up with them. It's called Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution.
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