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Paul Freemont on Synthetic Biology in the UK
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2023-01-05 02:50:48
Description: To begin the year, we head across the pond for an outlook on the thriving community of synthetic biology in the United Kingdom. Paul Freemont was a co-author of the UK's synthetic biology roadmap and co-directs SynbiCITE, the national center for the commercialization of synthetic biology. A few years ago the government put an initial investment of $300 million pounds into the field, and "everything was going swimmingly well," says Paul. "Then COVID happened."
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