A team led by researcher Liu Chenli at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with scientists from Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, has published Asia’s first 10-year synthetic cell technology roadmap in Nature Biotechnology. The roadmap focuses on artificial synthesis of single-cell life, identifies four core technical challenges and sets phased development targets to shift research from modular exploration to system-level integ

A team led by researcher Liu Chenli at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with scientists from Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, has published Asia’s first 10-year synthetic cell technology roadmap in Nature Biotechnology. The roadmap focuses on artificial synthesis of single-cell life, identifies four core technical challenges and sets phased development targets to shift research from modular exploration to system-level integration, and calls for deeper convergence of quantitative synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and biomanufacturing, opening new development paths for synthetic biology and future biotech.