Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jul 2022
The FDA needs to get ready to evaluate synthetic cells, the next generation of therapeutics
26 July 2022 - Expanding new medical treatments requires pushing — and sometimes breaking — the boundaries of what currently defines therapeutics. One of those boundaries is the very definition of a cell.
Until recently, cells were all-natural beings, living cell begetting living cell. That’s changing as synthetic biologists and engineers are learning to create synthetic cells that may someday change how a range of diseases are treated.
