The Synthetic Biology Project supports the effort by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to update the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology to address emerging technologies
like synthetic biology.
The Synthetic Biology Project supports White House plans to modernize the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology to address emerging technologies
like synthetic biology.
The key to understanding complicated things
like synthetic biology is being able to break them into simpler things.
Not exact matches
Competition: Most of the venture capital for
synthetic biology applications has gone to companies
like Seattle - based Juno Therapeutics, which does genetic engineering to help patients fight disease.
Last year
synthetic biology companies nabbed $ 1 billion from investors, including tech names
like Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen, Max Levchin, and Jerry Yang.
«Everybody in the
synthetic biology ecosystem should be licensed
like everybody in the aviation system is licensed.»
They'd be transformed by
synthetic biology, a young field of engineering that crafts building materials from DNA and cells rather than more traditional biological materials,
like trees.
«You can do
synthetic biology to produce a product, and they tend to be products either that evolution would not have selected for —
like a fuel, for instance — or that evolution would not select to produce enough of — engineering microbes to produce artemisinin.»
But
like others, Venter told the commission in oral testimony today that
synthetic biology is «very different from what's happened before» because scientists can now build genomes from digital information and a DNA synthesizer.
But
like every newborn,
synthetic biology is still intensely vulnerable.
In particular, it might be more revealing to ask if
synthetic biology is more likely to turn out
like digital hardware or software.
If
synthetic biology instead turns out to be more
like software, it will still be amazing but in a more incremental, less predictable way.
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Synthetic cell membranes that can grow like real membranes will be an important new tool for synthetic biology and origin of life studie
Synthetic cell membranes that can grow
like real membranes will be an important new tool for
synthetic biology and origin of life studie
synthetic biology and origin of life studies.»
Science blog (Clive Cookson):
Synthetic biology is one of those futuristic concepts,
like nanotechnology and regenerative medicine, that everyone feels is going to be a key technology for the 21st century, but few really understand.
Along with high - end products
like rose perfume and beer, there is a plethora of potential
synthetic biology products that aren't food items.
The OSTP memo also comes as the United Nations is considering the adequacy of local, national and international instruments to regulate
synthetic biology and whether they provide a comprehensive framework to address issues
like biological diversity.
Synthetic biology rests on the hope that biological «parts»
like DNA and proteins can be engineered and assembled just
like a machine or computer circuit, but the field still has some way to go before this is the case.
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.
Created in collaboration with a team of scientists working in the fields of
synthetic biology and bioelectronics, the lab has created a flesh -
like human nose using biological print technology and interactive facial - recognition software that attempts to predict the viewer's DNA profile.