Rewriting the code of life - World Economic Forum

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Speaking, we're talking about improving biology and redesigning organisms for beneficial purposes. It's going to allow us to not just edit genomes, but also, and importantly, write a new code for life. We'll have right-level permissions. We already started to see some of that this year. COVID-19 vaccines, they make use of engineered code in the form of messenger RNA. This is going to allow us very soon. It's kind of an umbrella term, it's synthetic biology that includes CRISPR, generally speaking, we're talking about improving biology and redesigning organisms for beneficial purposes. It's going to allow us to not just edit genomes, but also, and importantly, write a new code for life. We'll have right-level permissions. This could transform and will transform not just health, but also materials, the circular economy in fashion. I can't think of an area in which we won't see a significant improvement. We won't see a significant improvement.