Sentences with phrase «so synthetic biology»

So synthetic biology's «parts» are the DNA sequences that contain certain manufacturing instructions.

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«Synthetic biology could potentially revolutionize industrial biotechnology, and MIB is the perfect place to do this research because it is so interdisciplinary.»

The goal of synthetic biology, which combines biology with engineering, is to (re) program cells in order to improve their performance in a specific task, or so that they can efficiently perform a new task.

I can't hire Martha Stewart as a life coach, so the one thing I hope synthetic biology won't import from the open - software world is the cultlike mania that seems to grip so many open - source enthusiasts.

So Silberg and colleagues used the tools of synthetic biology — and a refined experimental setup that Silberg initially drafted with his son's spare Lego bricks — to establish a situation where just one microbial conversation was taking place and where biochar's effects on that conversation could be measured.

«So if you are interested in using the tools of synthetic biology to create new pharmaceuticals, then you need to have an idea of how... eukaryotes use pathways to create complicated molecules.

John Glass, a senior microbiologist in the synthetic biology group at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, puts it this way: If you can imagine a set of genes that will program a cell to do something — anything — then you can make them «at a reasonable cost and test your hypothesis... so it will be possible to attempt to design organisms that have extraordinary properties to solve human needs.»

So you have renewable bugs and the synthetic biology to make them do anything,» Nocera says.

Although the range of projects tackled under the umbrella of synthetic biology is vast, dedicated training programs remain rare, so most — or at least many — scientists find their own way in.

The term has been overused, so we have defined a separate field that we call synthetic genomics — the digitization of biology using only DNA and RNA.

So some would argue that that synthetic life or synthetic biology is a field that's already in full swing.

«A second innovation is the use of synthetic biology concepts, the modularization of the parts, and integration with a robotic system, so we can do it in high - throughput.»

So, could we go in and use targeted synthetic biology or chemical interference approaches to stop the production of methane?

With synthetic biology, on the other hand, the degree of genetic manipulation is so dramatic that it does not even make sense to talk about «modification».

Recent research by the industry group SynBioBeta indicated that, so far in 2015, synthetic biology companies raised half a billion dollars — more than the total investments in 2013 and 2014 combined.

It starts with the Fountain of Youth and ends in synthetic biology and DNA mutation — anything to stay alive, or at least give the impression of doing so.

But, as is so clear in considering the interface of science and society on a host of tough issues — from nanotechnology and synthetic biology to global warming — the views of the average person, let alone an elderly folkie, do matter.

Not biodiesel, conventional diesel fuel: The plant will have a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons per year and will, using synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol.