Synthetic biologists who wish to create their own startups need to learn entrepreneurship and management skills.
This will likely make life much easier for
synthetic biologists who will experiment with Syn 3.0 in the future, Voigt says.
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.
Not exact matches
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.»
«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.
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.
«They are going strong,» says
biologist Jef Boeke of New York University,
who helped lead the research as part of the
Synthetic Yeast 2.0 project — an effort to build a synthetic genome for yeast that would give scientists nearly complete contr
Synthetic Yeast 2.0 project — an effort to build a
synthetic genome for yeast that would give scientists nearly complete contr
synthetic genome for yeast that would give scientists nearly complete control of it.
«It's good to tell children
who look like me — that they can be me,» said Sarah Richardson, a
synthetic biologist and one of five women postdoctoral scientists awarded with the 2015 L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship on 22 October.
But a mammalian genome is a different prospect, says
synthetic biologist Tom Ellis of Imperial College London, an Sc2.0 collaborator
who attended the Harvard meeting.
Synthetic biologists —
who can design and modify the DNA of living organisms to give them novel, useful functions — have devised a way of containing their products to help ensure that they work only as intended.
The new technique, described online today in Science, «has extraordinary potential,» says
synthetic biologist Christopher Voigt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge,
who was not involved in the study.
«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.