Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology

英国上议院科学技术委员会发布《不要放弃扩大规模：抓住工程生物学的机遇》报告

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来源：

英国上议院科学技术委员会

来源地址：

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldsctech/55/55.pdf

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马铃薯基因组设计育种

类型：

前沿资讯

语种：

中文

原文发布日期：

2025-01-14

摘要：

Engineering biology is a fast-developing field of science with exciting potential applications across many sectors. These range from medicine and manufacturing to materials and food, and from growing more resilient crops to cleaning up waste in the environment. Biotechnologies could allow us to replace fossil fuels as the basic feedstock for much of industrial production—this would be a significant step towards achieving net zero and a sustainable economy. Engineering biology involves the design and construction of new or modified organisms or molecules, based on those we find in nature. Recent technological developments, such as gene editing, as well as data analysis through machine learning, allow us to harness and even enhance biological processes. Developments in AI increasingly enable us to rewrite the “software” of our world. However, essential products often require “hardware”, too—new ways to shape the world around us. Engineering biology has the potential to provide this, moving atoms as well as bits. As the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Dame Angela McLean, told us, its beneficial uses “are not science fiction”— they are here now.