July 26, 2009: Synthetic biology portends big changes in our lives by ushering in a dizzying array of applications in everything from medicine to biofuels, environmental remediation to agriculture. Though many of these applications haven’t yet come on line, researchers are hard at work to synthesize new drugs and devices made from genetic parts.

Christopher Voigt on QUESTQUEST, a multimedia series exploring Northern California science, environment and nature on PBS’s San Francisco affiliate KQED, features several SynBERC researchers as it delves into the tools that California synthetic biologists are using and the novel systems they are building.
“Decoding Synthetic Biology” can be viewed on the QUEST website at
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2009/07/21/producers-notes-decoding-synth...