Beyond synthetic biology, synthetic ecology boosts health by engineering the environment – Phys.org

There’s a lot of interest right now in how different microbiomeslike the one made up of all the bacteria in our gutscould be harnessed to boost human health and cure disease. But Daniel Segrè has set his sights on a much more ambitious vision for how the microbiome could be manipulated for good: “To help sustain our planet, not just our own health.”
Segrè, director of the Boston University Microbiome Initiative, says he and other scientists in his field of synthetic and systems biology are studying…

Click here to view the original article.