Field
Medicine
Horizon
ι Iota · 2035–2042
Lead center
Living Systems
Maturity
Research frontier — early-stage, high-uncertainty
Why it matters
It turns biology into a manufacturing and computing platform, enabling new cures, sustainable production, and biological solutions to hard problems.
Where it stands
Engineered microbes already produce drugs, flavors, and materials; predictability, complexity, and biosafety are the frontiers.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Living Systems center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at synthetic biology: 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.