Sentences with phrase «using synthetic biology»

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.

Using synthetic biology, student members of the school's International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team enhanced the process of biological synthesis with E. coli in an effort to make this environmentally friendly production method more affordable and accessible.

«Many applications using synthetic biology techniques are already on the market or close to coming to market,» Kuiken says.

To improve fuel production titer, rate, and yield (TRY), we study the producing host and fuel biosynthesis pathway intensively using various functional genomics tools such as targeted proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics, and engineer the metabolic pathway in the producing host using synthetic biology tools and systems biology.

Sept. 12, 2017 - A multidisciplinary scientific team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has made significant advances in developing a vaccine for chlamydia using synthetic biology, sponsored by a two - year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.

Dr. Newman is an inventor of the original patented technology underpinning the Amyris production platform, work that led to a grant he co-authored and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to produce a cure for malaria using synthetic biology.

«Using synthetic biology, we were able to effectively decouple the virus and the cell for the first time.

Unlike existing testing programs, Sample6 is using synthetic biology to develop a test that can be completed in a matter of hours rather than days.

Achieving a milestone in the fight against malaria, scientists at Amyris Biotechnologies have produced 25 g / L of amorphadiene, a precursor of the antimalarial agent artemisinin, by using synthetic biology and E. coli fermentations...

There was keen interest in both using synthetic biology approaches to confront invasive specie, and the role Mauritius could play in innovating strategies.

JBEI has pioneered the development of advanced routes to the production of fuels from sugars for use in blendstocks by using synthetic biology.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Using synthetic biology approaches, I am engineering fluorescent organisms to monitor mechanical sensing systems in response to pressure.

Glass and his Venter Institute colleagues are now using synthetic biology and synthetic genomics approaches developed at the JCVI to create cells and organelles with redesigned genomes to make microbes that can produce biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and industrially valuable molecules.

There are actually a number of companies that are now using synthetic biology on E. coli and other microbes to try to make fuel.

To make their discovery, Rust and his colleagues had to separate metabolism from light exposure, and they did this by using a synthetic biology approach to make photosynthetic bacteria capable of living on sugar rather than sunlight.

Today, new technologies are being used to artificially develop other traits in plants, such as resistance to browning in apples, and creating new organisms using synthetic biology.

Using synthetic biology and genetic engineering, scientists can place ads within food products that appear only when it is cooked or consumed.

Right now, it's expensive to make Ripple products because the company doesn't use synthetic biology — instead, it uses a combination of temperature, pressure, and heat to purify the pea protein.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

In the lab, he uses synthetic biology to create tools to better understand human disease.

Finally, to confirm their findings, the researchers used synthetic biology to create simplified viral circuits and directly manipulated Tat independent of the cell in these synthetic viruses.

Startup Sapphire Energy, which uses synthetic biology to make a green crude out of algae, announced on Monday that it's raising $ 144 million in a Series C round from investors including agriculture company Monsanto.

Not exact matches

Building with Biology offers opportunities for synthetic biology researchers to use hands - on activities to engage audiences.

The Building with Biology Project created a community of informal science educators, researchers and scientists dedicated to developing innovative resources, practices and processes to build the capacity of the field to use public engagement with science (PES) activities to extend STEM learning about science, technology and societal implications through public and scientist dialogue about synthetic biology.

In its final report, the committee will use this framework, revising as needed, as a tool to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with an assessment of the concerns presented by synthetic biology technologies and applications, as well as possibilities for mitigation.

Researchers working in the field of synthetic biology use components that occur in nature and combine them in a new way.

The framework also outlines factors under two broad categories — malicious use and mitigation — that the committee identified as important to include when determining the level of concern associated with a particular synthetic biology technology or application.

This report is the first in a two - phase study that is examining the changing nature of biodefense threats in the age of synthetic biology, focusing on the degree to which it can be used to create a weapon.

Given the possible security vulnerabilities related to developments in synthetic biology — a field that uses technologies to modify or create organisms or biological components — a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposes a framework to identify and prioritize potential areas of concern associated with the field.

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.

«If you look at some of the accomplishments from the iGEM competition, you see an extraordinarily rapid evolution of the capacity to use the tools of synthetic biology to build things,» Glass says.

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

Already, large companies such as DuPont are harnessing synthetic biology, and small companies «are being built around the idea of using organisms, designing organisms, using tools of synthetic biology to make molecules that can't be produced any other way,» Glass says.

«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.

Beyond the numerous synthetic biology applications, Efcavitch envisions that cheaper and more rapid DNA synthesis will push innovation in nanotechnology applications, such as using DNA for biosensors and data storage.

From the vantage point of developing predictive design and formation approaches for synthetic materials, the observations suggest how chemical energy stored across adjacent regions with unequal distributions of dissolved molecules can use processes derived from biology to drive structural reorganizations for advanced functions.

Security experts have long warned that would - be terrorists no longer need to steal deadly pathogens when commonplace genetic engineering techniques could turn a benign microbe into a killer or synthetic biology tools might be used to build a virus from scratch.

At this point, synthetic biology takes place mainly at lab benches, but this technology is aimed at mainstream uses and is becoming more accessible to mainstream users.

Read the news section of journals and keep a close eye on controversial topics: synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, the use of nanomaterials in medicine.

The paper's authors assert that, in any scenario, a dialogue on how to use and restrict synthetic biology methods and products must be initiated for the benefit of the world's societies and decision makers.

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.

This discovery provides proof - of - concept for the use of natural GroEL / ES to fold D - proteins for a variety of mirror - image drug discovery and synthetic biology applications.

Through iGEM, interdisciplinary teams of supervised students or community lab members throughout the world engineer genetic systems, using standardized biological parts, to tackle a broad variety of global synthetic biology challenges, from producing sustainable chemicals to detecting environmental contaminants.

«E. coli remains the workhorse microbial host in synthetic biology, and in our study, using the ionic - liquid - tolerant E. coli strain, we can combine many earlier discoveries to create an advanced biofuel in a single pot.»

Next, Yolanda Schaerli, first author of the study, successfully demonstrated that the four networks are functional by building them in the bacteria E. coli using the tools of synthetic biology.

Synthetic biology could be used to eliminate diseases, revive extinct species, restore lost genetic diversity, restore degraded ecosystems, and control invasive species, Redford said.

A synthetic biology platform enables the use of genomes to record events and memories.

There is even some hope of bringing back entirely extinct species in the future using the new tools of synthetic biology.

Critics have pointed out that the same synthetic biology know - how and technologies could be used by terrorists or rogue states to engineer a bacterium that churns out a neurotoxin or, perhaps, a deadly flu virus with resistance to vaccines and antiviral medications.