Synthetic biology is one of the 21st century's fastest growing fields of research, as important for technology as for basic science. Building on traditional genetic engineering, which was …
Víctor de Lorenzo & Antoine Danchin in the year 1493, christopher columbus (1451–1506) returned from his famous voyage across the atlantic Ocean with news of an unexplored land …
In this short contribution we explore the historical roots of recent synthetic approaches in biology and try to assess their real potential, as well as identify future hurdles or the reasons …
M Morange - HYLE–International Journal for Philosophy of …, 2009 - Citeseer
Synthetic biology emerged around 2000 as a new biological discipline. It shares with systems biology the same modular vision of organisms, but is more concerned with …
L Serrano - Molecular systems biology, 2007 - embopress.org
Life is evolving fast (at least in the first world) and the latest technological gadget becomes outdated even before we have learnt how to use it. In this respect, science is no exception …
A new approach in biology is emerging and gathering a broad band of advocates. Synthetic biology aims to improve our abilities to engineer biological molecules, assemblies and …
CG Acevedo-Rocha - Ambivalences of Creating Life: Societal and …, 2016 - Springer
For centuries, biology was centred on the analysis of the microscopic and macroscopic worlds, but since the end of the 19th century it progressively adopted synthesis as a means …
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Just over two years ago there was an article in Nature entitled “Five Hard Truths for Synthetic Biology”. Since then, the field has moved on considerably. A number of economic …