Recoding Life
<p>Dan belongs to a relatively new breed of scientists who call themselves synthetic biologists. Just a couple of decades ago, the term was not yet a part of the professional nomenclature. They were just geneticists, molecular biologists, or chemical engineers working on the technologies to push the boundaries of science and help develop treatments for devastating diseases like cancer. Those scientists’ work, although bold, was limited by the fundamental rules of biology. You could take a gene from one organism, swap it into another, or make other modest tweaks to living systems. But you were still bound by the fundamental rules of biology like the universal DNA code and the limited set of twenty amino acid building blocks that every protein, enzyme, and living cell is made of. Those restrictions date back to the origins of life and have held for billions of years — until about a decade ago.</p>
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