When scientists write their own rules for life, how do they know what could go wrong before it’s too late?

This is the final episode of our new three-part series, Life from Scratch.

Guests: Kate Adamala, associate professor at the University of Minnesota; David Relman, professor at Stanford University; John Glass, leader of the JCVI Synthetic Biology Group.

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