A new genesis is under way. After the dramatic advances in genomics, 21st century biology is also heading for a revolution : moving into the era of synthesis.Its ways and means : making evolution evolve, synthesizing genes, building genomes… decrytping, encrypting and re-encrypting the very building blocks of life, DNA, and manipulating them like simple Lego bricks, programming them, like mechanical parts… That is the challenge that lies ahead.Its objectives : conceiving and constructing living factories to produce chemical molecules, inventing new forms of life, to transform the world and to provide responses to health,energy and data issues… The revolution concerning our knowledge of a living-being’s most intimate workings, the revolution in computer power, the revolution in working on a nanoscopic scale… all these converge towards this new revolution ; that of synthetic biology. The consequences are huge, and the potential applications are promising. From the production of energy to new bio-materials, via the environment and medicine, synthetic biology could usher in an era of greater efficiency, cheaper costs and lower pollution.Biology 2.0 is a series to discover what nature would never have made and what man is in the process of creating. A journey beyond the new frontier of ‘life’, a fantastic revolution for some, a deeply orrying Pandora’s box for others…This documentary series, in the form of road-movies, takes us to the heart of this new world, to see its discoveries, its questions, its promises and realisations. It also provides a unique opportunity to examine and evaluate what new issues and stakes it raises for science, and the means and motivations of the 21st scientists behind it.