Sentences with phrase «synthetic biology need»

Engineers, mathematicians, and physicists drawn to synthetic biology need to grasp and develop broad knowledge in modern biology — and be able and willing to embrace biology's complexity and variability.

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In its final report, the committee will use this framework, revising as needed, as a tool to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with an assessment of the concerns presented by synthetic biology technologies and applications, as well as possibilities for mitigation.

Synthetic biology, she writes, has been addressing «humanity's needs» — limitless fuel, for example — rather than «our needs as individual, diverse and complex humans».

«So if you are interested in using the tools of synthetic biology to create new pharmaceuticals, then you need to have an idea of how... eukaryotes use pathways to create complicated molecules.

John Glass, a senior microbiologist in the synthetic biology group at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, puts it this way: If you can imagine a set of genes that will program a cell to do something — anything — then you can make them «at a reasonable cost and test your hypothesis... so it will be possible to attempt to design organisms that have extraordinary properties to solve human needs.»

That means you'll need to know some math, says Richard Kitney, a biomedical systems engineer who teaches synthetic biology at Imperial College London (ICL) in the United Kingdom.

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.

Security experts have long warned that would - be terrorists no longer need to steal deadly pathogens when commonplace genetic engineering techniques could turn a benign microbe into a killer or synthetic biology tools might be used to build a virus from scratch.

Although the commission saw no need to call for a moratorium on synthetic biology, it asked for careful risk monitoring, government oversight, public dialogue, ethics education, and «a continued culture of individual and corporate responsibility and self - regulation by the research community.»

In many respects, synthetic biology — a field that «aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.

The authors explain the need for new strategies in the conservation community to cope with the challenges of synthetic biology.

Many extol the virtues of synthetic biology as providing potential solutions to human health problems, food security, and energy needs.

Long - term support is also needed to address complex questions about how synthetic biology could impact the environment and overcome communication barriers across disciplines, the report says.

According to the paper, the field of synthetic biology — a discipline that utilizes chemically synthesized DNA to create organisms that address human needs — is developing rapidly, with billions of dollars being invested annually.

But the burden of making synthetic biology secure does not fall just on the scientists; policymakers and opinion leaders need to endorse those plans, too, for the public to believe in the governance.

One does not need to embark on a full - time degree to get started in synthetic biology.

Some activists have criticized the report, saying more stringent controls on synthetic biology are needed.

«Our synthetic biology pipeline for rapid sensor design and prototyping has tremendous potential for application for the Zika virus and other public health threats, enabling us to rapidly develop new diagnostics when and where they are needed most.»

Finally, Pollard wants to close the loop by incorporating code - writing approaches, such as genome editing using CRISPR - based approaches and synthetic biology, which are needed to test and validate hypotheses and could also provide novel therapies.

Self - regulation is a good first step — but synthetic - biology companies still need independent oversight.

Synthetic biology may have negative environmental impacts that need to be monitored closely, said Allison Snow, a professor in the department of evolution, ecology and organizational biology at Ohio State University.

BIOTECHNOLOGY: THE TIME is coming when if a new drug, cheap fuels or novel materials are needed, synthetic biology will deliver them.

Geneticist George Church discusses synthetic biology, and why scientists need to be careful with the technology.

Synthetic biology poses few risks because it is still in its early stages and there is no need to impose new restrictions on, or temporarily halt, this type of research, says a report being released Thursday by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Government regulation is needed to oversee the fast - developing synthetic biology industry, according to two pioneers in the field, Harvard scientist George Church and genome researcher Craig Venter.

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.

When the synthetic biology experts spoke, they focused on how their field is currently addressing the potential needs for food, energy and medicine.

President Obama's bioethics commission has recommended that, for now, there is no need for a moratorium or special oversight in the emerging field of synthetic biology — research, much of it commercial, aimed at custom - designing fully functioning microorganisms.

But I don't believe we'll really need those resources after a couple more decades (or fewer) of progress in synthetic biology.