Whether it is new and better drugs and therapeutics, more pest-resistant crops or the rapid development of mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19 within months of a global pandemic, biotechnology has revolutionized industries.
Applying engineering principles to biology has dramatically expanded the scale and scope of protein development. Coupling DNA synthesis with bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and a rapidly expanding toolbox of techniques has made the identification and modification of existing proteins and the development of entirely new proteins vastly easier. This playbook looks at: