PRINTING CELLS. “Looking further ahead, Venter intends DBCs to print living cells, using an automated and improved version of the process behind his 2010 breakthrough synthetic cell. Work on that is currently underway, with the focus on creating what he calls the “universal recipient cell”, a kind of biological blank slate able to receive any synthetic genome and come to life.” (DBC = Digital Biological Converter).
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/13/craig-ventner-mars