Sentences with phrase «field of synthetic biology for»

Although his PhD from Harvard was in chemistry, he is interested in using our understanding of metabolism and the emerging field of synthetic biology for the benefit of humanity.

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

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.

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.

Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.

A leader in the emerging field of synthetic biology, Amyris is well known for developing a strain of yeast for large - scale manufacture of a precursor to the antimalarial drug artemisinin, for which the Asian plant source is in short supply.

Dr Matthew Gregory, a corresponding author of the paper and CEO of Isomerase Therapeutics Ltd, said: «The work described in this paper has important ramifications for the natural products field and synthetic biology generally.»

Non-exclusive licenses are available for research and sale of products and services across multiple fields including: research tools, kits, reagents; discovery of novel targets for therapeutic intervention; cell lines for discovery and screening of novel drug candidates; GMP production of healthcare products; production of industrial materials such as enzymes, biofuels and chemicals; and synthetic biology.

Rapid developments in the field of synthetic biology and its associated tools and methods, including more widely available gene editing techniques, have substantially increased our capabilities for bioengineering — the application of principles and techniques from engineering to biological systems, often with the goal of addressing «real - world» problems.

In its Thursday - issued report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has given the go - ahead to research in the field of synthetic biology — technology which involves the creation of new organisms via the synthesis and manipulation of DNA.

The centers, which were announced on Jan. 30 by Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, will seek to increase the UK's capacity in the field of synthetic biology.

According to Craig Venter, especially famous for his first «synthetic» bacterial cell, the production of seed stocks for flu vaccines could be the first field of application for synthetic genome biology.

Inside the work of the United States Presidential Bioethics Commission In December of 2010, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded their investigation into the ethical and governance issues surrounding the emerging field of synthetic biology.

George Church, director of Harvard's Center for Medical Genetics and a synthetic biology policy wonk, feels that synthetic biologists ought to be under government surveillance — and if they don't like it, they should pick another field.

However, opportunities are emerging based on new genetic tools being developed for human biomedicine as part of the new fields of synthetic biology and genomic technology.

President Obama's bioethics commission has recommended that, for now, there is no need for a moratorium or special oversight in the emerging field of synthetic biology — research, much of it commercial, aimed at custom - designing fully functioning microorganisms.