Mendelspod Podcast

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."