Tomorrow’s Tech Treepowered by Astra

Pharmaceuticals · Recorded milestone

Drugs made inside the body

Recorded year2022

Engineered cells produce the medicine a patient needs.

Explore this milestone on the interactive map

Built on

Recombinant DNARecorded · 1973enables
Gene therapyRecorded · 1990enables

Led to

Home cell-therapy incubatorForecast · ~2078enables
Gut-microbe drug factoriesForecast · ~2079enables
Pills mostly obsoleteForecast · ~2090enables
Programmable cells as medicineForecast · ~2093enables

Sources & evidence

Additional source

Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.