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Don't Worry, Polar Bears. Synthetic Biologists Are on the Job

Oct 02, 2007

In the Wall Street Journal today, Juan Enriquez has a commentary on the looming energy crisis, in which he argues that the solution to it must come from biologists. "We have to change how we approach energy production," he writes. "That approach must begin with biology."

Enriquez, who was founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Science Project and cofounded Synthetic Genomics, suggests that biofuels -- and likely ones designed through synthetic biology -- represent "the birth of a new and potentially very large industry, one comparable in scale to biotechnology."

 

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