Yes, there would be many potential benefits: genetic engineering for medicine that could cure diseases that have yet to be understood, genetic engineering for an environmental benefit that could potentially reverse pollution, and the genetic engineering for the chemical industry. it could create biofuels instead of destroying the environment for them. However, I think the cons outweigh the pros. Yes, there would be serious benefits to synthetic biology, but on the other end of the spectrum, these synthetic advances could just as easily turn out to be completely opposite of what we expect them to be. As a scientist, if you are trying to make cells perform a specific task, it is possible that the cells will mutate or not follow the normal biological procedure. “The result is that each new generation is slightly different from the last” (Locke). Cancer cells are an example of this unpredictability. Cells are not organized, so reacting with something they shouldn't poses a great risk. An even greater risk would be if these cells ended up in nature, where the product is unpredictable. However, some organisms created through synthetic biology can only survive in the laboratory. "It's also possible that scientists could program a kill switch that would turn on at a certain time. (So, for example, a cell designed to kill cancer could be programmed to self-destruct once it does his work)" (Locke), but it is still far in the future and not