A multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature. It combines biology and engineering to build artificial biological systems for useful purposes.
The term was coined in 1910, but the field as we know it today was established in the early 2000s with the design of genetic circuits.
Synthetic biology has applications in diverse fields including medicine (e.g., CAR-T cell therapy), agriculture (engineered crops), and biofuels.