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Sep 2023
17m 28s

Business and science: What you need to k...

Bbc World Service
About this episode

In this week’s series focusing on business and science, we start things off by looking at the world of synthetic biology.

The industry is estimated to be worth around $30bn in the next few years, but how is that money actually made?

We speak to businesses across the world to find out how they’ve taken the building blocks of synthetic biology and engineered them into products that we use on a daily basis.

Presenter: Gareth Mitchell Producer: Izzy Greenfield

(Image: A scientist working with lab grown meat. Credit: Getty Images)

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