Sentences with phrase «synthetic biologist at»

Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist at Stanford University.

«The field was over-ripe, but not moving as fast as it could,» says George Church, a geneticist and synthetic biologist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who played a leading role in the HGP.

The system would also have to undergo a lot of work before it can be considered for use in humans — including, perhaps, replacing E. coli with another delivery system, says Richard Kitney, a synthetic biologist at Imperial College London.

Justin Gallivan, a synthetic biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, says in an e-mail that the study «nicely illustrates» how synthetic bacteria can perform complex tasks.

«It's exciting in that it represents another scale at which we can design mammalian genetic circuits,» says Timothy Lu, a synthetic biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

«This is a major milestone,» says Jens Nielsen, a synthetic biologist at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden.

That concern is one reason the research team, led by Christina Smolke, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, stopped short of making a yeast strain with the complete morphine pathway; medicinal drug makers also primarily use thebaine to make new compounds.

A few weeks later, John Dueber, a synthetic biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues announced yeast that carries out most of the first half of the pathway, going from glucose to another intermediate compound, S - reticuline.

«It's like playing with Lego building blocks, but not understanding how the bricks fit together,» says Danielle Tullman - Ercek, a synthetic biologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

So Virginia Cornish, a synthetic biologist at Columbia University, and her team set out to develop an alternative test with a long shelf life and no refrigeration using Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as baker's yeast, as their model fungus.

The new work is «solid,» says John Dueber, a synthetic biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is working on splicing morphine synthesis genes into yeast cells.

«It's a tour de force,» says George Church, a synthetic biologist at Harvard University.

These analog computations are much more powerful than those of previous, digital - based biological devices, says study author Timothy Lu, a synthetic biologist at MIT.

Darren Nesbeth, a synthetic biologist at University College London, says this is an exciting technology that could record the biography of a cell.

But there is still some way to go before the fruits of BIOFAB's labours can be useful to researchers, says Drew Endy, the facility's director and a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto.

«The idea of building whole genomes is one of the dreams and promises of synthetic biology,» says Paul Freemont, a synthetic biologist at Imperial College London, who is not involved in the work.

However, George Church, a synthetic biologist at Harvard Medical School, is calling for increased surveillance, licensing and added measures to prevent the accidental release of synthetic life.

Synthetic biologists at Clemson University in South Carolina are working with NASA to use algae and genetically modified yeast to turn astronaut urine into 3 - D printable plastics and nutritional omega - 3 fats.

Not exact matches

Today SynBERC is a major trainer of new synthetic biologists, running dozens of synthetic - biology - related courses at partnering institutions: the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco, MIT, Harvard University, and Prairie View A&M University in Texas.

Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the new research, says he is impressed by the work and calls it «an important advance for molecular programming, dynamic DNA nanotechnology and in vitro synthetic biology.»

Christina Smolke, an associate bioengineering professor at Stanford, describes the work of synthetic biologists in simple terms.

A team of synthetic biologists led by Farren Isaacs at Yale University has now rewritten these rules.

He and his team are describing biological phenomena at a minute level of detail, which could pave the way for synthetic biologists to come.

The Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center is partnering with DIYbio.org, on a project to ensure safety within the rapidly expanding community of amateur biologists.

A daring synthetic biologist who, after a car accident kills his family, will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it means pitting himself against a government - controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science.

As an official visiting artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yi has been collaborating with synthetic biologists on projects that extend her futuristic sculptures into the realms of science and scent.

This was the question asked at a symposium organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society at Cambridge University this week, attended by about 80 synthetic biologists and conservationists.

Most recently, Suzanna has collaborated with two scientists at Imperial College London; Professor Paul Freemont, a synthetic biologist, and Professor Alexander Bismarck, a chemical engineer.