Interview with Bioengineering Lecturer Terry Johnson-9 December 2008
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After guiding a group of students from UC Berkeley and some high school students from the Bay Area for the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition in November 2008, Berkeley lecturer Terry Johnson shares some thoughts about the process of preparation and presentation of synthetic biology projects.
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Marlee Tichenor
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How do we "engineer life" effectively with our incomplete knowledge of biology?
Synthetic biology has many definitions, one including the claim that its goal is to "engineer novel life systems." It is with this goal that part of the emerging discipline's platform is to do for biology what electrical engineering did for the study of circuits and electrons: to standardize strands of DNA that produce proteins with known functions so that they can be manipulated and recombined in a novel way.