Around 2 billion years ago something extraordinary emerged from the primordial seas of our planet: photosynthetic bacteria.
Known to many as the annually blooming blue algae - the cyano bacteria generated the big bang of life - turning the atmospheric CO2 into oxygen and thus enabling the explosion of life above sea level.
At the University of Turku, professor Yagut Allahyardieva-Rinne and her colleagues are reprogramming these bacteria to produce valuable chemicals.
This video is part of the Synbio Powerhouse annual seminar : Why the Bioeconomy needs Synthetic Biology.