Sentences with phrase «with synthetic biologists»

As an official visiting artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yi has been collaborating with synthetic biologists on projects that extend her futuristic sculptures into the realms of science and scent.

For his artwork commission, Sutherland, in collaboration with a synthetic biologist, has created an altered genome file for the common weed Arabidopsis Thaliana.

Not exact matches

An engineer might think of designing a bridge to a particular specification; a synthetic biologist of designing a microorganism with a new commercial application, pumping out green gasoline for example; but a real designer, a fashion designer, for example, is doing something else.

Just as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.

A growing cadre of do - it - yourself (DIY) biologists have taken to closets, kitchens, basements, and other offbeat lab spaces to tinker with genomes, create synthetic life - forms, or — like Rienhoff — seek out elusive cures.

In some ways, synthetic biologists do «the same things that people have been doing before with a new name and on a bigger scale,» Glass continues.

BIOFAB aims to supply synthetic biologists with a collection of genetic parts that they can use in their experiments.

This will likely make life much easier for synthetic biologists who will experiment with Syn 3.0 in the future, Voigt says.

Synthetic biologists have been impressively open to collaborations with the social sciences, law, arts and humanities, and open to debates with critical groups.

Once synthetic biologists have come up with the algorithms, living things like yeast, bacteria and even grass can pump out products and solutions.

It should help remove the element of trial and error that synthetic biologists have so far had to live with.

Do - it - yourself biologists have set up a community lab that combines synthetic biology with art, fun, and perhaps profit.

So Virginia Cornish, a synthetic biologist at Columbia University, and her team set out to develop an alternative test with a long shelf life and no refrigeration using Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as baker's yeast, as their model fungus.

«It's good to tell children who look like me — that they can be me,» said Sarah Richardson, a synthetic biologist and one of five women postdoctoral scientists awarded with the 2015 L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship on 22 October.

«It's like playing with Lego building blocks, but not understanding how the bricks fit together,» says Danielle Tullman - Ercek, a synthetic biologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

That concern is one reason the research team, led by Christina Smolke, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, stopped short of making a yeast strain with the complete morphine pathway; medicinal drug makers also primarily use thebaine to make new compounds.

The system would also have to undergo a lot of work before it can be considered for use in humans — including, perhaps, replacing E. coli with another delivery system, says Richard Kitney, a synthetic biologist at Imperial College London.

Synthetic biologists at Clemson University in South Carolina are working with NASA to use algae and genetically modified yeast to turn astronaut urine into 3 - D printable plastics and nutritional omega - 3 fats.

Synthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms with synthetic gene circuits to break down polluting plastics, non-invasively diagnose and treat infections in the human gut, and generate chemicals and nutrition on long - haul spaceSynthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms with synthetic gene circuits to break down polluting plastics, non-invasively diagnose and treat infections in the human gut, and generate chemicals and nutrition on long - haul spacesynthetic gene circuits to break down polluting plastics, non-invasively diagnose and treat infections in the human gut, and generate chemicals and nutrition on long - haul space flights.

Synthetic biologists are a lot like children playing with Lego.

The Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center is partnering with DIYbio.org, on a project to ensure safety within the rapidly expanding community of amateur biologists.

With the internet providing an array of «how - to» knowledge and companies such as Ginkgo Bioworks providing easy access to genes, creative groups of students and hobby biologists have embraced the new field of synthetic biology.

The emerging discipline of synthetic biology aims to bring together modellers, physicists, and chemists, with biochemists, structural biologists and cell biologists.

Most recently, Suzanna has collaborated with two scientists at Imperial College London; Professor Paul Freemont, a synthetic biologist, and Professor Alexander Bismarck, a chemical engineer.