Not exact matches
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.
Now human engineers are learning to
design and synthesize novel biochemical devices such as nanoscale factories,
biological circuits and even molecular computers.
Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the
design and creation of
biological circuits — systems that, like electronic
circuits, can take a number of different inputs and deliver a particular kind of output.
Bio-engineers are working on the development of
biological computers with the aim of
designing small
circuits made from
biological material that can be integrated into cells to change their functions.
Last year, the International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School in Italy began offering researchers, at all levels, and industrial professionals 5 days of courses in topics including genome
design, metabolic engineering, synthetic
circuits and cells,
biological design automation, and high - throughput techniques.