Sentences with phrase «synthetic biologists engineer»
Synthetic biologists engineer cells to store long - term information about their surroundings or activity
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An engineer might think of designing a bridge to a particular specification; a synthetic biologist of designing a microorganism with a new commercial application, pumping out green gasoline for example; but a real designer, a fashion designer, for example, is doing something else.
Just as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.
Combining tissue engineering and the same micro-fabrication techniques that are used to produce computer chips, Harvard University cell biologist Don Ingber and his colleagues have built a living, breathing synthetic lung — albeit one just the size of a quarter.
By fitting DNA into an engineering template, the messy field of biology emerges as a complex but somewhat predictable system — one that synthetic biologists have begun to maneuver in recent years.
Synthetic biologist Reshma Shetty predicts that we will eventually engineer organisms to grow everything that we manufacture today.
As they work toward translating laboratory findings into full - scale industrial production, synthetic biologists also must have sound knowledge of good manufacturing practice; automation, chemical, and biochemical engineering; mathematics; and thermodynamics.
Synthetic biologists had previously engineered yeast to produce artemisinin, an antimalarial compound, but that required inserting just a handful of plant genes.
To do so, geneticists and synthetic biologists find themselves taking a cue from safety engineers.
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Synthetic biologists are getting closer to creating man - made organs made out of genetically engineered cells...
Most recently, Suzanna has collaborated with two scientists at Imperial College London; Professor Paul Freemont, a synthetic biologist, and Professor Alexander Bismarck, a chemical engineer.