{"title":"Toward a more effective engineered biology","authors":"Sung Gyung Lee, Hal S. Alper","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00263-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Engineered biology has long been touted as a sustainable avenue for producing the world’s energy, chemicals and food. However, substantial challenges in scalability, economic competitiveness and resource use have hindered its industrial translatability. This Comment discusses emerging strategies to increase the competitiveness of this technology by rethinking the microbial host, feedstock, product landscapes and applications.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 8","pages":"459-462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Chemical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00263-1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Engineered biology has long been touted as a sustainable avenue for producing the world’s energy, chemicals and food. However, substantial challenges in scalability, economic competitiveness and resource use have hindered its industrial translatability. This Comment discusses emerging strategies to increase the competitiveness of this technology by rethinking the microbial host, feedstock, product landscapes and applications.