Designing Life: The Promise and Potential of Biogenic Engineering

The emergence of Biogenic Engineering heralds a new era at the intersection of biology, engineering, and materials science. In this groundbreaking book, Jack Al-Kahwati serves as the consummate guide to this fascinating field that seeks to design and create life-like systems by applying engineering principles to biology. Laying the conceptual foundations, the book introduces the Assembly Index, a metric to quantify the structural complexity of systems across multiple scales from molecules t...