Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Synthetic biology 2020–2030: six commercially-available products that are changing our world

  • Christopher A. Voigt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20122-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Synthetic biology will transform how we grow food, what we eat, and where we source materials and medicines. Here I have selected six products that are now on the market, highlighting the underlying technologies and projecting forward to the future that can be expected over the next ten years.