Sentences with phrase «if synthetic biology»
On the other hand, if synthetic biology can start improving the world outside of food, perhaps society will start to view biotechnology with more of an open mind, and eventually embrace it — even on the dinner table.
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If synthetic biology instead turns out to be more like software, it will still be amazing but in a more incremental, less predictable way.
In particular, it might be more revealing to ask if synthetic biology is more likely to turn out like digital hardware or software.
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If that's not enough, Venter sees a role for synthetic biology in food beyond crops and livestock — specifically the growing hunger for meat around the world.
«If you look at some of the accomplishments from the iGEM competition, you see an extraordinarily rapid evolution of the capacity to use the tools of synthetic biology to build things,» Glass says.
«If you look in the back of Science or the back of Nature, or Google «synthetic biology jobs,» you'll find lots and lots of them now,» Glass says.
«So if you are interested in using the tools of synthetic biology to create new pharmaceuticals, then you need to have an idea of how... eukaryotes use pathways to create complicated molecules.
John Glass, a senior microbiologist in the synthetic biology group at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, puts it this way: If you can imagine a set of genes that will program a cell to do something — anything — then you can make them «at a reasonable cost and test your hypothesis... so it will be possible to attempt to design organisms that have extraordinary properties to solve human needs.»
«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.
If you share my view that technology drives history more than any other factor, then you will probably agree that the 21st century is going to be significantly shaped by the outcome of a single question: Will synthetic biology achieve radical success or not?
BIOTECHNOLOGY: THE TIME is coming when if a new drug, cheap fuels or novel materials are needed, synthetic biology will deliver them.
«After the SynBERC funding ends next year, it is unclear if there will be a dedicated synthetic biology research program outside of the Pentagon.
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.
If the field of synthetic biology lives up to its promise, says Harvard Medical School Professor Pamela Silver, cheap, fast...
On the contrary, the astounding potential of synthetic biology has, if anything, added to the sense of uncertainty.
But if you use the argument that nuclear is too expensive because it is 12 % higher cost than fossil fuels, can you tell me how much more expensive is the synthetic biology fuel you are advocating than current fuel prices (delivered to the consumer)?
If based on the HLWG report, this Trans Atlantic free trade agreement (TAFTA) could open the door wide for gene patents, as well as trade in genetically engineered food and even products based on synthetic biology.