title: The synthetic biology future.
abstract: Herein, I track the evolution of synthetic biology from its earliest incarnations more than 50 years ago, through the DIYbio revolution, to the next 50 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences; Cork Institute of Technology; Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Roy D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Sleator
mesh_terms: D001702:Biopharmaceutics / Q000639:trends*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000639:trends*; D015195:Drug Design; D005544:Forecasting; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000639:trends*; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends*; D008954:Models, Biological; D058615:Synthetic Biology / Q000639:trends*