William-and-Mary

October 21, 2023

William-and-Mary # SOILution: Taking Synthetic Biology from the Lab to the Soil # Healthy soil is essential for all life on Earth. It is necessary for growing the food we eat, protecting our homes against flooding, and sequestering greenhouse gasses threatening our planet. However, globally, soil is rapidly degrading. While Synthetic Biology has shown great potential in laboratory settings to address global environmental problems, deploying constructs effectively into messy, heterogeneous soil environments, where they must survive and express circuit genes, remains a significant challenge. ...