We have vegan burgers that taste like meat and synthetic collagen to enhance beauty thanks to synthetic biology. It’s a field rife with potential — such as engineering microbes to help fight cancer — but current bioengineering methods are slow and laborious. Machine learning could help that process. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/09/25/machine-learning-takes-on-synthetic-biology-algorithms-can-bioengineer-cells-for-you/