Field
Medicine
Horizon
ι Iota · 2035–2042
Lead center
Living Systems
Maturity
Research frontier — early-stage, high-uncertainty
Why it matters
It can cure inherited disease, improve crops and livestock, and let us design biology to specification — a foundational capability across medicine and agriculture.
Where it stands
Gene-edited therapies and crops are approved and expanding; delivery, off-target effects, and ethics govern the pace.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Living Systems center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at genetic engineering: frontier models survey the literature and simulate the possibilities, rank the experiments most likely to resolve the open questions, and partner labs run the decisive ones — with results shared openly.