Synthetic Biology and the Bacteria That Make Jet Fuel

When Life Becomes Substrate

Life as Platform

Ten years ago in a London lab, E. coli learned to breathe propane. Not as a party trick. Not as a proof of concept. As a job. The bacterium that usually gives us food poisoning was now giving us fuel, following instructions written in a language that sits somewhere between Genesis and GitHub. The researchers celebrated. The bacteria kept…