Sentences with phrase «synthetic biology helping»

Is synthetic biology helping us to create artificial life?

Or that synthetic biology helps to replace petroleum based products by sugar based counterparts?

Not exact matches

Competition: Most of the venture capital for synthetic biology applications has gone to companies like Seattle - based Juno Therapeutics, which does genetic engineering to help patients fight disease.

Craig Venter (which helped to sequence the human genome) announced that it had created the first - ever synthetic, self - reproducing microbe with synthetic biology.

As the closing paragraph puts it, «we hope to help prevent synthetic biology simply following unimaginative and entrenched paths».

Synthetic biology might also help solve one of the biggest problems with new buildings, which is water leakage.

In the»90s, he went on to help develop automated DNA synthesis and sequencing technology, unknowingly paving the way for his oldest son's career in synthetic biology.

About halfway through his Ph.D., Justin helped launch a synthetic biology company called Bio Architecture Lab.

The bold dream of synthetic biology is a world in which all living things can be reliably engineered in ways that help everyone and everything.

Such conversations should also help move the discussion beyond speculation about utopias and dystopias, by recognising that the prospects for synthetic biology are likely to be both less sensational and less forbidding than is generally acknowledged.

Fifteen years ago, the U.S. gave up on algal - based biofuels; now synthetic biology has helped revitalize the field.

«We involved experts in the ecological research and synthetic biology communities to help identify priority research areas — and we believe the report can be a roadmap to guide the necessary work.

The emails disclose that Emerging Ag is working with Kuiken and other AHTEG members to help recruit scientists to an open online forum on synthetic biology meant to inform the CBD.

Regarding the specifics of synthetic biology, Science Daily wrote in a Nov. 5, 2010 press release, «The University of Greenwich's School of Architecture & Construction is poised to use ethical synthetic biology to create «living» materials that could be used to clad buildings and help combat the effects of climate change.

The JCVI / SGI team, led by Krishna Kannan, Ph.D., SGI and senior author Daniel G. Gibson, Ph.D., SGI and JCVI, believe that this new combined technique has wide applications in the field of synthetic biology and can be used to both study the function of 16S rRNA specifically but also to help more broadly interrogate any genetic structure and answer basic questions of biology.

Synthetic biology may hold the key to increasing yields on currently farmed land — and hence helping address food security — by enhancing photosynthesis and reducing pre-harvest losses, as well as reducing post-harvest and post-consumer waste.

While synthetic biology may be a useful tool in helping to better understand biological systems, it carries too many risks and unanswered questions to be allowed outside the lab at this time.

In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this drug...

The report contained 18 recommendations designed to help ensure that, as synthetic biology advances, the risks and ethical concerns are proactively addressed, the public is continually engaged, and oversight mechanisms are assessed and adjusted as needed to protect public health and the environment.

At the meeting, which was overshadowed by news of the world financial crisis, Szybalski, the man who helped coin the term «synthetic biology,» expressed his own view about criticism of the field.

When the conservationists left the meeting, we could see the potential of synthetic biology to help conservation.

«The Board's hard - fought proactive stance on synthetic biology will both help preserve the integrity of organic standards and raise awareness about this virtually unregulated and unlabeled form of genetic engineering,» said Dana Perls, food and technology policy campaigner with Friends of the Earth.