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4. biotech: Synthetic biology:
BBC 00486.txt
For example, Alberto Estevez's Genetic Barcelona proposes using synthetic biology techniques -which enables us to grow organisms that do not exist in nature by manipulating their DNA oe to create trees that produce a natural light-producing protein usually found in jellyfish.
impactlab_2013 00259.txt
Revenue from industrial chemicals made through synthetic biology is already as high as $1. 5 billion,
Jim Thomas, a researcher for the ETC Group, said there is a larger issue that applies to all organisms produced by synthetic biology techniques:
impactlab_2013 01188.txt
dubbed synthetic biology, that makes more genetic alterations in order to treat living things more like machines that can be engineered.
impactlab_2014 00353.txt
Of particular interest will be synthetic biology, which allows efficiently reprogramming unicellular life to make fuels, byproducts accessible from organic chemistry and smart devices.
Synthetic biology: Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.
Includes the broad redefinition and expansion of biotechnology, with the ultimate goals of being able to design,
Livescience_2013 06825.txt
They work with communities on a wide range of issues including synthetic biology and bionic implants.
Nature 04218.txt
Indeed, some synthetic biology companies, concerned about policing illegal, copycat proliferation of their technology, are already working on terminator-like safeguards.
That is the strategy of Ginkgo Bioworks, a four-year-old synthetic biology company in Boston, Massachusetts, that develops made-to-order microbes to churn out marketable chemicals.
WS_1452 00806.txt
But, as geneticist and open-source medicine evangelist Andrew Hessel wrote in the January-February 2010 issue of THE FUTURIST, oethanks to rapidly moving technologies like synthetic biology,
synthetic biology drops the cost of doing bioengineering by several orders of magnitude. Small proteins, antibodies,
WS_1452 01394.txt
Synthetic biology. What woes it mean for agriculture? Today post was prompted by an invitation from Andrew Revkin to join in on a discussion spawned by his recent post at NYTS oedot Earth titled,
oewill Synthetic biology Benefit or Threaten Wild Things?.A recent conference at Cambridge university brought together two unlikely groups for a groundbreaking conversation between conservationists and synthetic biologists over the subject of synthetic biology.
The two groups attempted to discuss all aspects of the subject including ethics, the science, concerns, regulation, purpose,
whether synthetic biology that utilizes plants for food, energy, and medicine might lead to an increase or loss of biodiversity.
The framing paper for the conference was oehow will synthetic biology and conservation shape the future of nature?
First, the paper three oeconcepts of synthetic biology: â oethe design and construction of new biological parts, devices,
as explained by Paul Freemont of the Centre for Synthetic biology at Imperial College in London,
The paper also sums up the six sectors in which innovation of synthetic biology will have an important role to play:
In this context, a very generous estimate of 2012 total international revenues from synthetic biology would be $1 billion,
and biodiversity as it relates to synthetic biology must address the topic of land use changes, and so far, the most important category for land use change has come from biofuels policies.
A few things that synthetic biology might bring to us in agriculture are: the ability to raise crops using fewer pesticides;
Many forms of life being developed by synthetic biology are being patented. The benefits provided by these organisms will reflect the economic interests of those able to invest in
Yet, progressive conservationists recognize that there is potential for synthetic biology to increase biodiversity, too. Not to be overlooked, the paper noted that oepopulation growth
what role synthetic biology and its products will play in these relationships. But in fact, I might argue that a bigger driver is the opportunity to profit from using land for production purposes.
He said that synthetic biology is oegrander in scope than most genetic modification which involves modestly changing a few genes.
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