# Biological-World Engineering **Entity class:** Engineering paradigm **Domain:** Biotechnology / Planetary systems **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Biological-world engineering treats organisms, populations, and ecosystems as increasingly designable systems while recognizing that living systems reproduce, evolve, and escape laboratory boundaries. ## Mechanism and significance The paradigm unifies synthetic biology, gene drives, ecological restoration, and biological manufacturing under an unusually demanding responsibility for second-order effects. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Computational Biology and Virtual Cells|Computational Biology and Virtual Cells]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI-Driven Biology]] · [[Cellular Digital Twins]] · [[Computational Biology]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Synthetic Ecology]] · [[Biotechnology Panic]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.