Sentences with phrase «as synthetic biology»

And they show how Shelley's text foreshadows future technological innovations, and the challenges we anticipate from emerging fields such as synthetic biology and artificial intelligence.

The report contained 18 recommendations designed to help ensure that, as synthetic biology advances, the risks and ethical concerns are proactively addressed, the public is continually engaged, and oversight mechanisms are assessed and adjusted as needed to protect public health and the environment.

The Synthetic Biology Project was launched in 2008 to ensure that, as synthetic biology moves forward, public confidence in the science and applications remains high, policymakers are informed, and any risks are minimized.

Backgrounders cover topics such as synthetic biology, the Human Genome Project, human rights, HIV / AIDS, nanotechnology, and teaching.

New technologies, such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, carry largely unknown — but potentially huge — risks, according to the report.

«As synthetic biology leads to the emergence of more sophisticated GMOs to address these grand challenges, we must assume a proactive role in establishing safe and efficacious solutions for biotechnology, similar to those who worked to secure the Internet in the 1990s.»

• «I would imagine that the R&D overhead on something as sophisticated as synthetic biology for bio-based sustainable chemicals is quite high.

But the payoff could be huge, as synthetic biology is poised to make the kind of leaps in the 21st century that computer technology made in the 20th.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT grad Kay Aull reprogrammed the genome of E. coli bacteria, a type of life - based engineering known as synthetic biology.

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He named synthetic biology, food and enterprise software as areas of interest.

In a case of technology meets biology, scientists in labs across the country are experimenting with synthetic DNA as a storage medium, most notably Microsoft and the University of Washington.

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.

Globally, we have still to address existing security threats such as artificial intelligence, robotic warfare, and 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.

Synthetic biology, she writes, has been addressing «humanity's needs» — limitless fuel, for example — rather than «our needs as individual, diverse and complex humans».

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 is a long way from the quest for endless gasoline and from seeing life as programmable parts, and shows how much the science of synthetic biology is willing to evolve.

As the closing paragraph puts it, «we hope to help prevent synthetic biology simply following unimaginative and entrenched paths».

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.

Armstrong is fascinated by bacteria and mold, which she and other synthetic biology designers view as the building blocks of future cities.

In August the National Science Foundation affirmed the promise of synthetic biology with a $ 16 million grant to establish the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), a collaboration among such institutions as Harvard University, MIT, the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of California at synthetic biology with a $ 16 million grant to establish the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), a collaboration among such institutions as Harvard University, MIT, the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of California at Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), a collaboration among such institutions as Harvard University, MIT, the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of California at Berkeley.

For instance, a yeast engineered to churn out the antimalarial drug artemisinin has been hailed as one of the great success stories of synthetic biology.

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.

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.

Others say that a made - to - order human genome is inevitable anyway, hoping to seize the publicity and controversy it creates as an opportunity to educate the public about synthetic biology.

A recent article about synthetic biology and consumer goods describes DNA synthesis as a process where «DNA is created on computers and inserted into organisms.»

«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,» says Andrew Hessel, a self - described futurist and biotechnology catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring synthetic biology applications in recent years.

The three broad «focus areas» laid out in this week's announcement include technology to support service members (including prosthetics and neurological therapies) and synthetic biology research such as the Living Foundries program.

In many respects, synthetic biology — a field that «aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.

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.

As a genetics professor at Harvard, he thinks synthetic biology should have the same safety features as other, more mainstream branches of engineerinAs a genetics professor at Harvard, he thinks synthetic biology should have the same safety features as other, more mainstream branches of engineerinas other, more mainstream branches of engineering.

Synthetic biology could, as Colin Barras suggests, be useful in addressing many of the world's challenges, such as how to...

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

«They see synthetic biology as a gateway to biofuels and consider that a Trojan horse for genetically modified crops.

«The option of rapidly creating a completely synthetic formulation that can be effective as a vaccine is an important addition to currently available vaccine strategies,» says Hidde Ploegh, an MIT professor of biology, a member of the Whitehead Institute, and an author of the paper, who added that it will be important to assess safety and cost.

Many extol the virtues of synthetic biology as providing potential solutions to human health problems, food security, and energy needs.

«We're excited about the application of CombiGEM to probe complex multifactorial phenotypes, such as stem cell differentiation, cancer biology, and synthetic circuits,» Lu says.

A number of innovative initiatives are also coming up, such as the SynBio4All platform supported by CRI, which can be described as part MOOC, part open laboratory notebook, and part crowdsourcing discussion platform on synthetic biology.

Already, synthetic biology is making its first steps as an enabling technology to produce fuels, chemicals, and plastics.

The achievement, while celebrated as a major step forward in synthetic biology, could also make it easier for bioterrorists to make dangerous pathogens.

Endy recalls a 2006 New York Times article on synthetic biology in which Frances Arnold, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, said, «There is no such thing as a standard [biological] component, because even a standard component works differently depending on the environment.

In 2004, these early principles were tried out by students during a synthetic biology competition, now known as the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) contest, an effort that grew out of Endy's and Knight's labs.

Several years ago, Yuste and other scientists originally pitched BRAIN to U.S. government officials as the Brain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural circuit.

Church: To some extent analytic biology — that's to say analyzing what's out there as finite but synthetic — is infinite, I mean it's only limited by imagination and a few physical laws.

Researchers working in the new field of synthetic biology can imagine other building blocks: different proteins, amino acids (the core components of proteins), and metabolic systems that would work just as well as, or perhaps even better than, the ones we know.

After the government's comprehensive spending review slashed science infrastructure spending by 25 % in 2010, British science has had to make do with piecemeal funding for major initiatives such as high performance computing, synthetic biology, and advance materials.

In addition, a private organization should create a fact - checking Web site that would correct exaggerations in the media about synthetic biology — such as claims that Venter created life.

Now, a new synthetic biology technique that produces artemisinin in a vat may act as a buffer against potential supply crises.

With genetically engineered microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, playing an increasing role in the green chemistry production of valuable chemical products including therapeutic drugs, advanced biofuels and biodegradable plastics from renewables, Cas9 is emerging as an important genome - editing tool for practitioners of synthetic biology.

As for practical applications, Wingreen says that the general sensing strategy might build into the artificial cells researchers are trying to create in synthetic biology.