Slide title: Synthetic biology – the next Silicon Valley?

Slide images: (left to right) three-dimensional view of a model protocell; illustration of natural antibody therapeutics; photo of tiny interwoven fibers that make up the 3-D fabric "scaffold" into which a strong, pliable hydrogel is integrated and infiltrated with stem cells, forming a framework for growing cartilage

Image credits: (left to right) Janet Iwasa, Szostak Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; courtesy of GigaGen Inc.; Frank Moutos, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Duke University, and Farshid Guilak, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University