Sentences with phrase «synthetic biologists know»

For now, though, synthetic biologists know next to nothing about how to design a genetic code for an entirely novel organism.

Not exact matches

Just as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.

«Synthetic biology itself and the synthetic genome still remain to be proven but we are much closer to knowing that it is theoretically possible,» biologist J. Craig VenSynthetic biology itself and the synthetic genome still remain to be proven but we are much closer to knowing that it is theoretically possible,» biologist J. Craig Vensynthetic genome still remain to be proven but we are much closer to knowing that it is theoretically possible,» biologist J. Craig Venter says.

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.

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