Sentences with phrase «synthetic biology turns»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In particular, it might be more revealing to ask if synthetic biology is more likely to turn out like digital hardware or software.

If synthetic biology instead turns out to be more like software, it will still be amazing but in a more incremental, less predictable way.

Then again, reality often violates our preconceived notions, and synthetic biology could turn out to have a character that doesn't resemble hardware or software.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.