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Create Biological Manufacturing Systems

Develop manufacturing processes that use living organisms to produce complex products through biological processes. Biological manufacturing would engineer organisms to serve as living factories, producing pharmaceuticals, materials, chemicals, and other products through biological synthesis. The challenge involves engineering organisms for specific manufacturing functions, creating controlled environments for biological production, and ensuring quality control in biological manufacturing processes. Applications include bacteria that produce pharmaceuticals, plants that manufacture industrial chemicals, and organisms that grow complex materials like biological plastics or composites. Success would create sustainable manufacturing processes, enable production of complex molecules impossible through chemical synthesis, and provide manufacturing capabilities that improve and evolve over time.

Engineering, Core Engineering, Industrial Engineering