Nature Amplified

The Synthetic Biology Revolution Is Here

By Deborah Halber for The Engine
Illustrations by Andrés Rodríguez

Ajikumar Parayil reaches inside what looks like a black plastic wardrobe, tears a leaf from a bushy plant and sniffs it. A geranium, he guesses.

A chemical engineer and CEO, Parayil isn’t too concerned with exactly which species grow in a…