Sentences with phrase «synthetic biology takes»
At this point, synthetic biology takes place mainly at lab benches, but this technology is aimed at mainstream uses and is becoming more accessible to mainstream users.
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Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.
So Silberg and colleagues used the tools of synthetic biology — and a refined experimental setup that Silberg initially drafted with his son's spare Lego bricks — to establish a situation where just one microbial conversation was taking place and where biochar's effects on that conversation could be measured.
Its plays host to parts mostly made by students who have taken part in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, an annual synthetic biology contest that has been running since 2003.
Computers are pretty cool and really useful in synthetic biology labs, but it takes a -LSB-...]
• «I love the idea of taking tools from synthetic biology to develop organisms that produce commercial products from sustainable sources.
A meeting run by the science and engineering academies of the UK, US and China that will take place in Washington DC next week aims to assess the prospects for synthetic biology, and the concerns about its potential, by bringing together natural scientists, social scientists, artists, regulators, science funders and critical NGOs.
This week, a presidential bioethics commission took up a burning new issue in science: the risks and benefits of synthetic biology.
It is difficult to predict how economic forecasts will translate into jobs for scientists, and up to now, a lot of the research and development in synthetic biology has taken place away from the big companies.
In 2010, a presidential bioethics commission took a close look at synthetic biology and said that no new regulations were required.
«I think it's a very cool new direction for synthetic biology to take.»
We took the occasion to talk to him about his work and about the future of synthetic biology.
In 2003 the first synthetic biology conference took place at MIT, and by 2006 the field had become a media darling.
Washington Lawyer magazine takes a look at the «Do - It - Yourself» biology movement and the issues surrounding these growing scientific communities, including input from the Synthetic Biology Project's Todd Kuiken.