Sentences with phrase «new synthetic organisms»

The discovery could pave the way for the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications.

MEDFORD / SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 26, 2018)-- Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

«Adapting native regulons can be a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications.»

Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

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Today, new technologies are being used to artificially develop other traits in plants, such as resistance to browning in apples, and creating new organisms using synthetic biology.

Given the possible security vulnerabilities related to developments in synthetic biology — a field that uses technologies to modify or create organisms or biological components — a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposes a framework to identify and prioritize potential areas of concern associated with the field.

«Many approaches in synthetic carbon dioxide fixation have been driven by top - down «trial - and - error» approaches through direct implementation of new routes into the complex background of living organisms,» Erb said.

The new code allowed the team to link growth of the bacteria to synthetic amino acids not found in nature, establishing an important safeguard that limits the spread and survival of organisms in natural environments.

«New way to prevent genetically engineered and unaltered organisms from producing offspring: «Synthetic incompatibility» could boost safety and effectiveness of applying genetic engineering to control invasive species, produce fuel, prevent disease and more.»

The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.

As a synthetic biologist, she designs and creates new types of organisms from genes.

Synthetic biology practitioners begin with computer - assisted biological engineering to design and attempt to construct new biological organisms or biological building blocks, or to redesign existing biological organisms.

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.

But while a child uses plastic blocks to construct elaborate creations, synthetic biologists use genes and DNA to build new organisms and bacteria that create vaccines and biofuels and cure diseases...

A global research team has built five new synthetic yeast chromosomes, meaning that 30 percent of a key organism's genetic material has now been swapped out for engineered replacements.

The central goal of synthetic biology is to create new life forms and functions1, and the most general route to this goal is the creation of semi-synthetic organisms whose DNA harbours two additional letters that form a third, unnatural base pair.

This is all inspired by the 1970s science fiction film The Andromeda Strain, and by synthetic biology's potential to create artificial organisms, leading to a scenario of possible new lifeforms and lifestyles.

While genetic engineering involves the exchange of genes between species, synthetic biology involves artificially creating new genetic code and inserting it into organisms.