synthetic biology
Synthetic biology, metaphors and responsibility
... Responsible innovation comes as part of a cluster of phrases, which all reinforce each other. These are: responsible innovation, sustainable development and, of course, public engagement. Together they convey a message ...
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Sequencing enabling design and learning in synthetic biology
... with synthetic RNA spike-ins and Ribo-seq with measurements of growth rate and cellular mass (red features in dashed boxed) to convert read counts into absolute units ...as synthetic biology moves ...
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Challenges for the European governance of synthetic biology for human health
... Findings and recommendations concerning governmental SynBio regulation Irrespective of the limitations of our ELSI approach and our initial workshop agenda, the events that we organized did produce inspiring discussions, ...
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Engineering a palette of eukaryotic chromoproteins for bacterial synthetic biology
... Results: Here, taking advantage of codon optimization programs in 12 cases, we engineered 14 CP sequences (meffRed, eforRed, asPink, spisPink, scOrange, fwYellow, amilGFP, amajLime, cjBlue, meffBlue, aeBlue, amilCP, ...
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Who are the users of synthetic DNA? Using metaphors to activate microorganisms at the center of synthetic biology
... in synthetic biology, guided by central principles of modularity and decoupling, has tended to move in the opposite ...make biology modular, synthetic biologists have worked toward creating ...
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Cell-Free Synthetic Biology Platform for Engineering Synthetic Biological Circuits and Systems
... As synthetic biological systems have become larger and more complex, deciphering the intricate interaction of synthetic systems and biological entities becomes a challenging ...Cell-free synthetic ...
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PGASO: A synthetic biology tool for engineering a cellulolytic yeast
... Recently, synthetic biology has been recognized as a powerful approach for the design and construction of new biological ...of synthetic biology ...
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The role of synthetic biology in climate change mitigation
... Abstract: There is growing agreement that the aim of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is to avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, is not likely to be met without ...
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The construction of imaginaries of the public as a threat to synthetic biology
... This belief endures even though decades of opinion polls have systematically failed to demonstrate a linear correlation between scientific knowledge and public attitudes, and reveal instead ambiguous relationships ...
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TinkerCell: modular CAD tool for synthetic biology
... of Synthetic Biology ...engineering. Synthetic biology introduces the notion of biological "parts" [4], which are individual components that can be assembled in different ways to ...
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Synthetic Biology, Water Industry and the Performance of an Innovation Barrier
... ent synthetic biologists. This collective of actors seeded the UK Synthetic Biology Roadmap Coordination Group, which produced the SB Roadmap (TSB ...in Synthetic Biology’ 2 and a ...
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Selection platforms for directed evolution in synthetic biology
... universal; biology is limited to a small subset of potential ...in Synthetic Biology is to recapitulate biological complexity from simple systems made from biological molecules – gaining a deeper ...
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Science and Technology Studies in Policy: the UK Synthetic Biology Roadmap
... STS research has drawn attention to three features of attempts to govern the future that are important for our discussion of the UK Synthetic Biology Road- map. First, the future is always uncertain, so ...
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Governing through risk: synthetic biology and the risk management process
... On the surface, the Guidance, much like the earlier Framework, might be described as a technical document that describes a disinterested approach to risk analysis based on appeals to the ‘scientific evidence’ (or, no ...
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Synthetic biology applied in the agrifood sector: societal priorities and pitfalls
... agrifood synthetic biology, to ensure that these early applications deliver concrete and tangible benefits, in which the benefits perceived to be available to (at least some) consumers outweigh perceived ...
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Part by part : synthetic biology parts used in solventogenic Clostridia
... Here, we assess the currently available parts 168 used in synthetic biology projects, starting first with reporters available to measure gene 169 expression, then the promoters, terminat[r] ...
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Evolutionary tinkering vs. rational engineering in the times of synthetic biology
... challenges synthetic biology faces to become a true branch of engineering do not end with the points we have discussed so ...that synthetic biology can fulfil its ...
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Synthetic Biology: Engineering Complex Biological Systems (EuroSYNBIO)
... a synthetic biology approach we will reconstitute these machines into stable synthetic ...into synthetic vesicles building the frame of the future NANOCELL will ...
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Life as engineerable material: an ethnographic study of synthetic biology
... the synthetic biologists at the Centre see the ‘products’ of their work as machines? This would arguably be the logical end point of believing you can engineer biology like any other inanimate material ...
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Synthetic Biology and Biosecurity: How scared should we be?
... of biology is often misrepresented as meaning that any layperson, working outside professional scientific institutions, is or soon will be able to design and produce organisms that behave predictably and ...of ...
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