Biotechnology Design

Biotechnology Design is a question driven, cross-disciplinary, modular and iterative research field. These characteristics are hampered by traditional publishing, as researchers want to explore speculative, not yet perfected models and use tools and collaborators from fields they may not be familiar with and may not traditionally work with. These researchers need a forum where biologists, engineers, AI experts and designers can come together and experiment to find solutions that the 21st century requires - be that to find answers for food production, to build materials (for clothing, housing, everyday objects), to facilitate travel or to address health issues. Biotechnology Design is a fantastic opportunity to push the boundaries of research in the area to ensure smarter, more sophisticated solutions to intrinsically difficult research questions and challenges.

The Biotechnology Design community is a space to discover and contribute to the Questions shaping the field of biotechnology design. Find out more about the associated journal here [opens in a new tab].

If this is your field, shape this community by:

• Submitting early or supplementary outputs, typically non-peer reviewed, that help answer the published questions. All outputs have a DOI and therefore are discoverable and citable.
• Suggesting future questions for publication. If the advisory council and executive board accept your suggestion, you will be the author of the Question. Please use the discussion forum for this or contact us on biotechnologydesign@cambridge.org.
• Discussing other researchers’ question suggestions and other researchers’ outputs in the forum.
• Suggesting how we can make this community and the associated journal work for you by contacting us on biotechnologydesign@cambridge.org or via the forum.