Fall of the Rebel Angels (c. 1650 / Etching) - Alexis Loir I, after Charles Le Brun

A synthetic biology startup named Berkeley Lights, for instance, recently built hardware to collect a sample of blood from a patient who had recovered from Covid 19. It separates out the bad cells from the helpful and lets scientists incubate them to see whether they make the sort of antibodies that will neutralize the coronavirus. If the process works, researchers will be able to sequence the immune cell, send the code to a synthetic DNA company to print the physical DNA, and then inject the new DNA into the right cells, programming the cells to make as many antibodies as a patient needs.
Understandably, viruses have gotten a bad reputation in the past year. But from a biomechanical perspective, they’re just little containers that inject code, like the thumb drive you stick into your computer to transfer files between devices. In the next decade, we will create viruses to fight off diseases.

https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-biology-plan/