In the UK, for example, social scientists have been participating in synthetic biology research programmes from the outset. (newscientist.com)
DARPA itself has been one of the largest public funders of synthetic biology research in the U.S. in recent years, upping its spending on synthetic biology projects to more than $ 100 million in 2014 from nothing in 2010, according to one analysis. (scientificamerican.com)
It was into this well - established interdisciplinary environment that Eriko Takano arrived in 2012 to lead synthetic biology research at the MIB. (sciencemag.org)