“hope eventually to design bacterial cells that will produce medicines and fuels and even absorb greenhouse gases.”
We already have organisms that do that. They are called “plants.” Just how dim is the Beeb audience anyway?
This is all part of the “progressive” agenda.
First - get everybody healthy through obabmacare and other lifestyle controlling forces (like wellness-plans).
Second - start up the eugenics.
You see, the lefty fascists figure that hitler had it “right” all along. He just changed things too fast.