A Day in the Life of an iGemmer
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What does synthetic biology research actually involve? Here is an interactive slideshow depicting the daily protocols and activities of young synthetic biologists--the UC Berkeley 2008 iGEM Wet Team.
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Video
Creator:
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.