Cell-Free Avenues for Accelerating Forward Engineering in Biology

Cell-free engineering offers an opportunity to decouple the cell’s objectives from our engineering objectives. With new tools and methods for assembling and amplifying genome-scale DNA in vitro, cloning may finally become a thing of the past, not only compressing research times but also expanding what’s possible. This panel will explore the state of the art in cell-free technologies and share some surprising new ways they can be used in therapeutics, cheap diagnostics, and distributed manufacturing.