Table of Contents

Who Controls the Exowomb?

By DANYA GLABAU

Growing babies outside the body could bring utopia, dystopia, or both.

Fish Out of Water

By NADIA BERENSTEIN

How to make lab-grown seafood delicious.

Custom Highs

By MICHELLE LHOOQ

GMO weed is the next step in demystifying your favorite drug.

Synbio 2050

By ALEXA GARCIA

Imagining the future of synthetic biology.

Farm-to-Operating-Table

By BRAD BOLMAN

The self-fulfilling prophecy of xenotransplantation.

There’s Nothing Unnatural about a Computer

By CLAIRE L. EVANS

James Bridle’s Ways of Being wants us to take a fresh look at nature’s intelligence.

Go Big or Stay Home

By MAX G. LEVY

The incrementalist approach to pandemic prevention leaves us vulnerable to another outbreak.

Back to the Future

By KEOLU FOX & CLIFF KAPONO

Intertwining Indigenous knowledge with synthetic biology to restore Hawai‘i’s ecology.

The Fullness of Time

By SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU

Some things aren't supposed to work.

Down to Earth

By DAVIAN HO

To achieve the future it advertises, synthetic biology must reimagine itself.