In California, Synthetic Genomics developed a printing machine called Digital-to-Biological Converter that takes digital representations of DNA and prints them using chemicals that make up DNA like adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. Their hope is that medical offices can someday print their own vaccines and medicines instead of having to wait to have them shipped to their locations, especially useful for more remote clinics around the world.
They also see its value in space where it is most difficult and expensive to get supplies to and from a space station. Some challenges still exist as the machine can only print more simple organisms at this time as all it takes is one DNA base to be out of place to mess up complex organisms.