Sentences with phrase «make synthetic organisms»

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Already, large companies such as DuPont are harnessing synthetic biology, and small companies «are being built around the idea of using organisms, designing organisms, using tools of synthetic biology to make molecules that can't be produced any other way,» Glass says.

Venter's quest for synthetic life ultimately aims to create purpose - built organisms that can carry out specific roles, such as producing biofuels or even making hydrogen.

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.»

We then use this to make a protein without a living, intact organism,» said Jewett, who is also co-director of Northwestern's Center of Synthetic Biology.

Most ethical, policy and media discussions about synthetic biology start from the assumption that these aims have already been achieved: that biology has become easy to engineer for whatever ends we choose, that the toolbox is available to any student or potential terrorist, that dangerous organisms and powerful bioweapons are easy to make, and that no effective regulation is possible.

At its most basic, synthetic biology is about making DNA from scratch, on scales from individual molecules to cells, tissues and even entire organisms.

These traits contrast with previous biocontainment strategies involving synthetic organisms and energy sources, requiring hundreds of gene edits, awful lots of money and time, and which are so specialized as to make them impractical.

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.

Craig Venter and his teams at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, have shown themselves to be technical wizards by synthesising a genome from code contained on a computer, and using it to start a cell line of the resulting synthetic organism (see «How the synthetic bacterium was made»).

Rendered in real time on PS3 hardware, Kara chronicled the activation of a self - aware synthetic organism, but this making - of feature is impressive in its own right as it shows how Quantic Dream assembled several different performances to create a seamless, believable virtual character.

Before much longer the cheapest fuel will be made by synthetic organisms with metabolisms re-designed to produce paraffins as the primary metabolic product.