Sentences with phrase «called synthetic biology»

Amyris, which is based in Emeryville, CA, uses the tools of a new field called synthetic biology to reengineer microbes, including yeast that can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol.

At the heart of their vision is a form of bioengineering called synthetic biology, which would let them rewire biology to make organisms do our bidding — from making drugs, biofuels and fragrances to the decidedly futuristic manufacturing of laptops from sawdust.

Danino is known for genetically engineering bacteria to treat cancers, part of a field called synthetic biology.

«The idea that we're working on here is called synthetic biology.

Calling synthetic biology «an extreme form of genetic engineering,» the report said that current practices for regulating and assessing biotechnology were inadequate.

Meanwhile, other scientists were similarly borrowing techniques from engineering and figuring out how to manipulate microbes, an effort they came to call synthetic biology.

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There were plenty of calls at Sci Foo for developing synthetic biology along open - source lines.

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.

Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the new research, says he is impressed by the work and calls it «an important advance for molecular programming, dynamic DNA nanotechnology and in vitro synthetic biology.»

The synthetic biology effort was originally called Human Genome Project 2, but the founders changed the name to Human Genome Project - write by the time of the closed - door meeting last May.

About halfway through his Ph.D., Justin helped launch a synthetic biology company called Bio Architecture Lab.

Although the commission saw no need to call for a moratorium on synthetic biology, it asked for careful risk monitoring, government oversight, public dialogue, ethics education, and «a continued culture of individual and corporate responsibility and self - regulation by the research community.»

In the day and a half of open meeting, the council heard a variety of other recommendations, including a moratorium on releasing synthetic organisms into the environment, a call for a White House — level office to oversee synthetic biology, and a plea for more funding for the field.

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.

It's this atomic precision that enamored Tom Knight, often called the godfather of synthetic biology.

There have been calls for «self - regulation» by the industry and at the end of 2012 President Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a report saying that industry self - regulation would be sufficient and «gave the green light» to the synthetic biology community.

Your ignorance of synthetic biology is manifest in calling me an algae zealot however.