Can you build your own synthetic biology, synthetic cyborgs?

你能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学设计 COVID-19 的备选疫苗。

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

Pulkkis：我正在拍摄一部关于微生物和合成生物学的纪录片。

So is synthetic biology, which I'll now refer to as " synbio."

合成生物学也如此，我现在将其称为“合成生物” 。

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

我们甚至正在研究合成生物学的工具。

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

例如，合成生物学试图将生物学写成一个设计问题。

These are the first semisynthetic organisms.

这些第一个半合成生物。

It's not just synthetic biology, either.

这不合成生物学。

You do that with genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

你可以用基因工程和合成生物学来做到这一点。

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

杰伊·基斯林加州大学伯克利分校的合成生物学家，他曾为酵母编程，以廉价生产抗疟疾药物。

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

在这里， 他们节目中的明星，第一个功能齐全的半合成生物。

Others are using synthetic and biological bodies created for them in the physical world.

其他人则使用物质世界为他们创造的合成和生物身体。

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

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

But what if you can go back to that idea of synthetic biology

但，如果你能回到合成生物学的想法呢？

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学学科的核心。

So how can DNA and synthetic biology help?

那么 DNA 和合成生物学如何提供帮助？

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

合成生物学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。

It could boost synthetic biology, by speeding up the creation of human-designed proteins designed to catalyse chemical reactions.

它可以通过加速创造旨在催化化学反应的人类设计蛋白质来促进合成生物学。

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

嗯，合成生物学造福社会的自然工程。

Today, I'm the creative director at a synthetic biology company called Ginkgo Bioworks.

今天，我一家名为 Ginkgo Bioworks 的合成生物学公司的创意总监。