Uploaded August 2015 | Updated September 2026, 43 minutes ago

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That’s because there’s always been this divide between technology — the inanimate stuff that we build — and biology — the living stuff that nature builds. It’s not that we can’t build living things; we just have to figure out how. And that’s exactly what synthetic biologists are trying to do. Check out the video above to see how.

featuring: Suzanne Jacobs
producer: Daniel Penner
asst. producer: Ana Sofia Knauf
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music: "Merluzzo" by Wistia

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