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Manufacturing and Value Chains
These 'biofoundries' use DNA to make natural products we need
From limitless spider silk to vaccines, biofoundries take advantage of nature's incredible capacity for building.
Douglas Friedman is executive director of Engineering Biology Research Consortium.