[The prestigious Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Germany has gone together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to set up a join Center for Synthetic Biochemistry,]( https://english.news.cn/20260418/27bf84f550b34ecbabdeb9eff2e0cb19/c.html)the first collaborative research initiative between the two dedicated specifically to the field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems and the re-design of existing biological systems.