Space Travel and Synthetic Biology

The article gives a hint of applications to come as a result of Synthetic Biology. In this case with respect to space travel. However, I suspect that here on earth we could very well benefit from most of these developments as well :

• microbial community could add cells to produce certain vitamins and proteins needed for long-term space missions.
• eliminate future infections, tooth decay

Read more on arsbiologica : http://www.arsbiologica.org/2010/11/synthetic-biology-and-space-travel.html