Sentences with phrase «synthetic biologists do»

And how this determines what we learn about the field and what synthetic biologists do actually know.

In some ways, synthetic biologists do «the same things that people have been doing before with a new name and on a bigger scale,» Glass continues.

Not exact matches

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

An engineer might think of designing a bridge to a particular specification; a synthetic biologist of designing a microorganism with a new commercial application, pumping out green gasoline for example; but a real designer, a fashion designer, for example, is doing something else.

A growing cadre of do - it - yourself (DIY) biologists have taken to closets, kitchens, basements, and other offbeat lab spaces to tinker with genomes, create synthetic life - forms, or — like Rienhoff — seek out elusive cures.

Science is creative, exciting and future - oriented and most synthetic biologists, like most people, do want to «make life better».

What are synthetic biologists actually doing?

Do - it - yourself biologists have set up a community lab that combines synthetic biology with art, fun, and perhaps profit.

Do - it - yourself biologists are hunting down genetic disorders and creating synthetic life - forms in garages, closets, and backyards around the world.

Do we need to have a professional licensing organization so we license people essentially to be synthetic biologists?

To do so, geneticists and synthetic biologists find themselves taking a cue from safety engineers.

Synthetic biologists may use computers to design gene sequences that don't exist in nature, have those sequences chemically synthesized, and then insert them into the genome of existing organisms.

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.