Synthetic: How Life Got Made

Roosth's poetic and thought-provoking writing about the ever-expanding realm of synthetic biology brings our moment in this story clearly into focus. Her personal experiences at MIT, studying bioengineering pioneers, and with the founders at Ginkgo BioWorks, give unique insight to the early ethos and the changing perspectives on what makes life. Her observations of corporate interests and DIY hackers round out this fascinating study of the launching point for one of humanity's most transformative endeavors.

A fascinating deep-dive into the past, present, and future of Synthetic Biology. Prepare to be enamored by the potential to change life as we know it, powered by the engines of synthetic biology and next-gen genome sequencing.

A Brief but enlightening overview of brave new world of Biology fills in the gap of what has transpired since earlier work by George Church titled Regenesis !

As someone who has worked on synthetic biology projects with a background in genetics I was hoping for a scientific read, but this seems to be written through an anthropologists lens. I was disappointed because a few of my peers recommended this book to me but it's just fluff and a lot of the connections the authors tried to make between the history of synthetic biology and say... abrahamic religions (just why?)... were weird and I couldn't get behind it. Wanted to love it :(