Hacking DNA to beat climate change

Nature already has a secret way to combat climate change. What if we could harness it?
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In partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks

Humanity’s impact on the Earth is massive. 

Arable land is transformed for agriculture; plastics litter the planet; the very atmosphere is warming with carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, hotboxing all of us.

But what if solutions to these complex problems could be found in the very building blocks of life itself?

This is why Ginkgo Bioworks exists: to provide the platform that allows innovators and entrepreneurs to work with biology, to make everything from plastic-munching microbes to better beauty products.

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