Do - it - yourself biologists have set up a community lab that
combines synthetic biology with art, fun, and perhaps profit.
Not exact matches
Researchers working in the field of
synthetic biology use components that occur in nature and
combine them in a new way.
The goal of
synthetic biology, which
combines biology with engineering, is to (re) program cells in order to improve their performance in a specific task, or so that they can efficiently perform a new task.
And
synthetic biology is at the forefront of that,
combining advances in engineering and
biology in ways that will profoundly impact human well - being.
Rice University offers a Ph.D. program that
combines systems,
synthetic, and physical
biology to students with backgrounds in
biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or physics.
«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.»
«
Combining exhaustive computational modeling with
synthetic biology is more efficient and powerful than building networks one - by - one» says the corresponding author Mark Isalan.
The approach
combined experimental
synthetic biology led by Mark Isalan, now Reader in Gene Network Engineering at the Department of Life Sciences of Imperial College London with computational modelling led by James Sharpe, ICREA Research Professor and head of the Multicellular Systems
Biology lab at the CRG.
The JCVI / SGI team, led by Krishna Kannan, Ph.D., SGI and senior author Daniel G. Gibson, Ph.D., SGI and JCVI, believe that this new
combined technique has wide applications in the field of
synthetic biology and can be used to both study the function of 16S rRNA specifically but also to help more broadly interrogate any genetic structure and answer basic questions of
biology.
The goal of her laboratory is to
combine high - resolution computational reconstructions of the microbiome with
synthetic biology to devise innovative approaches to create novel therapeutic interventions and investigate the underlying ecology of skin microbial communities.
Synthetic biology combines chemical synthesis of DNA with growing knowledge of genomics to enable researchers to quickly manufacture catalogued DNA sequences andassemble them into new genomes.
We challenge the mutual interdependence of lipid - protein interactions by an interdisciplinary approach,
combining cell
biology and
synthetic biology as well as protein biochemistry, structure
biology and biophysics.
Recent research by the industry group SynBioBeta indicated that, so far in 2015,
synthetic biology companies raised half a billion dollars — more than the total investments in 2013 and 2014
combined.