We met with Dr. Wayne Johnston, Research Associate and Lecturer, Dr. James Antoney, Postdoctoral Fellow in Protein Engineering, and Mica Fiorito, Ph.D. student at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). As members of Professor Kirill Alexandrov's and Dr. James Behrendorff's labs, they discuss their work in QUT’s synthetic biology lab and the exciting potential for synthetic biology to be applied in diagnosing diseases like cancer. Their cutting-edge research is paving the way for innovative diagnostic methods that could transform how diseases are detected and treated in the near future.