Can you build your own synthetic biology, synthetic cyborgs?

你做出你自己的合成生物，合成改造人吗？

We're also using synthetic biology to design a candidate vaccine for COVID-19.

我们也在使用合成生物设计 COVID-19 的备选疫苗。

Jay Keasling is a synthetic biologist at U.C. Berkeley, who has previously programmed yeast to cheaply produce antimalarial drugs.

杰伊·基斯林是加州大伯克利分校的合成生物家，他曾为酵母编程，以廉价生产抗疟疾药物。

Synthetic biologists can program bacteria to sense those conditions, and by doing so, respond to tumors while avoiding healthy tissue.

合成生物家们可以让细菌对这些条件敏感，因此使得细菌只对肿瘤反应，从而避开健康组织。

In my lab, we're using the tools of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to speed up the fight against this pandemic.

在我的实验室中，我们正在使用人和合成生物的具，加快与这场疫情的战斗。

Here they are, the stars of the show, the first fully-functional semisynthetic organisms.

在这里， 他们是节目中的明星，第一个功齐全的半合成生物。

For instance, synthetic biology seeks to write biology as a design problem.

例如，合成生物试图将生物写成一个设计问题。

I was filming for a documentary about microbes and synthetic biology.

普尔基斯：我当时正在为一部关于微生物和合成生物的纪录片拍摄。

Well, synthetic biology is the engineering of nature to benefit society.

合成生物是利用程手段改造自然以造福社会。

You do that with genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

你可以用基因程和合成生物来做到这一点。

Next, we need to make fighting these dangers core to the discipline of synthetic biology.

接下来，我们需要将对抗这些危险作为合成生物的核心。

Zymergen, another synthetic biology lighthouse, whenever they design a product, use a ruthless design-to-cost approach.

Zymergen，另一个合成生物灯塔，每当他们设计产品时，都会使用无情的设计成本方法。

And we're even looking at the tools for synthetic biology.

我们甚至正在研究合成生物的具。

But bacteria aren’t the only synthetic things that scientists are working on.

但细菌并不是家们正在研究的唯一合成生物。

He's the father of synthetic biologies at Harvard University.

他是哈佛大合成生物的奠基人。

This surgery meant that more biosynthetic transplants in humans might follow.

这项手术意味着更多的人体生物合成移植可会随之而来。

Imagine being able to precisely control gene expression in synthetic organisms.

想象一下够精确控制合成生物体中的基因表达。

The implications for fields like synthetic biology and bioengineering are immense.

这对合成生物和生物程等领域的影响是巨大的。

These thoughts became a cutting-edge field later, called biocomputation and synthetic biology.

这些想法后来成为一个前沿领域，称为生物计算和合成生物。

This lecture is about the applications of synthetic biology and doing things with biological systems.

本讲座内容涉及合成生物的应用以及对生物系统的操作。