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Synthetic Biology Researcher
Engineers living cells to produce materials, medicines and fuels
£45k–£100k Bioscience boom
What it involves
Designs genetic circuits in bacteria, yeast and mammalian cells to manufacture drugs, bioplastics, spider silk, meat and chemicals that are hard or impossible to synthesise conventionally.
Skills & knowledge needed
Genetic engineeringMetabolic engineeringDNA synthesisBioreactor operationBioinformatics
Why it's emerging now
Syn-bio is moving from academia to billion-dollar startups producing real products at commercial scale.
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