NAKFI Synthetic Biology:: Building a Nation's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries

NAKFI Synthetic Biology:: Building a Nation's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries
ISBN-10
0309153700
ISBN-13
9780309153706
Category
Science
Pages
60
Language
English
Published
2010-04-02
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, The National Academies

Description

Synthetic biology is an innovative and growing field that unites engineering and biology. It builds on the powerful research that came about as a result of a recombinant DNA technology and genome sequencing. By definition, synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary enterprise comprising biologists of many specialties, engineers, physicists, computer scientists and others. It promises a fundamentally deeper understanding of how living systems work and the capacity to recreate them for medicine, public health and the environment, including renewable energy. NAKFI Synthetic Biology: Building a Nation's Inspiration discusses new foundational technologies and tools required to make biology easier to engineer, considers ethical issues unique to synthetic biology, explores how synthetic biology can lead to an understanding of the principles underlying natural genetic circuits and debates how synthetic biology can be used to answer fundamental biological questions.

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