Foundational Technologies
Description:
The tools to do synthetic biology are becoming available to a wider and wider audience, although the funds and support for different groups of synthetic biologists varies greatly. What does it involve, learning to become a synthetic biologist? Here is an interactive slideshow touching on some processes involved with learning and putting such knowledge to use.
Resource Type:
Video
Creator:
Marlee Tichenor
Publisher:
vuvox.com
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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.