This comic appeared in the following article Foundations for engineering biology p449 Story: Drew Endy, Isadora Deese & The MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group Art: Chuck Wadey, www.chuckwadey.com Nature 438, 449 - 453 (24 November 2005) doi:10.1038/nature04342 Adventures in synthetic biology - accessible text version Background Information To accompany our special issue on Synthetic Biology, Nat