Sentences with phrase «synthetic biology involves»

While genetic engineering involves the exchange of genes between species, synthetic biology involves artificially creating new genetic code and inserting it into organisms.

Synthetic biology involves making new genetic code, also known as DNA, which does not already exist in nature.

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CC: I have been involved in other projects where I turn data into sound, for example the output captured by underground geophones from fracking, or complex structures in synthetic biology.

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.

This new process for transforming E. coli into a cellulosic biodiesel refinery involves the tools of synthetic biology.

Yet much of the document in fact focused on the debatable desirability of the goals of synthetic biology, and on the need to acknowledge the complexities and uncertainties involved in designing novel living organisms — issues which concern many of those working in synthetic biology and which can and should be the subject of open debate.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, for example, recently counted more than 220 companies, government laboratories, research institutions, universities, and policy centers involved in synthetic biology in the United States, with California, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas hosting the majority of these.

«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.

Synthetic biology, which involves designing and building genetic constructs and testing them in living cells, requires wet lab skills.

«The long - term goal is to understand the stability and targeting mechanisms important to synthetic biology applications involving, for example, chemical sensing between living cells and electronic detectors as well as the development of biofuel cells.»

In its Thursday - issued report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has given the go - ahead to research in the field of synthetic biology — technology which involves the creation of new organisms via the synthesis and manipulation of DNA.

The promising new field of «synthetic biology» involves the design and construction of new biological components, devices and systems, as...

During those years I had the opportunity of being involved in different laboratories where I really enjoyed working on a variety of topics (synthetic biology, chromatin remodelling, evolution...).

It was clear that synthetic biology — which involves the engineering of life — was advancing rapidly and inevitably could impact the world's biodiversity — and could be either a positive or negative.

An excellent example of an environmental issue involving uncertain outcomes that requires application of the precautionary principle, not cost - benefit analysis, is regulation of synthetic biology.