In 2013, Drew Endy, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering, was honored as a Champion of Change by the White House. A leader in the field of synthetic biology, Endy founded BioBricks Foundation, which has underwritten an open technical-standards-setting process for synthetic biology and developed a legal contract for making genetic materials free to share and use. He spoke at TEDxStanford about his work with designers, social scientists and others to transcend the industrialization of nature. Watch the above video to learn more about the potential for making life programmable and the future of genetic engineering.
Previously: Programming cells for chemical production and disease detection, The "new frontier" of synthetic biology, Drew Endy discusses developing rewritable digital data storage in DNA and Researchers create rewritable digital storage in DNA
