Engineering living systems, for instance by designing DNA, to give organisms new functions.
Meanwhile, we also recognized a real need for data visualization within the synthetic biology field. There’s a lot of time series data and channel mappings that could be quickly visualized and spatialized into interactive environments.
Jenn Leung, Embodying AI at NeurIPS 2025: Creative AI Track
Simultaneously, inside synthetic biology and other disciplines researching new life forms, like assembly theory, there is a similar conversation about how life could be produced in ways that aren't carbon-based.
Agnieszka Kurant, Agnieszka Kurant on Alien Thoughts