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What is synthetic biology?
What is synthetic biology? (Bioethics · Synthetic Biology) — "Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) is a scientific field that has gained much prominence in popular medi…
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- Synthetic Biology (SynBio)
- SynBio has gained prominence in popular media and scientific literature.
- Historical development of the term
- In 1980, Barbara Hoom coined the term to describe genetically engineered bacteria using recombinant DNA technology.
- In 2000, Eric Kool and other speakers reintroduced the term for unnatural organic molecules functioning in living systems.
- SynBio builds, models, designs, and fabricates novel biological systems using customized gene components.
- These customized components can produce artificially created genetic circuitry.
- SynBio is an umbrella term covering two broad research subfields.
- One subfield uses unnatural molecules to produce a desired product from natural biology.
- The other assembles interchangeable natural parts into systems that act unnaturally.
- Both subfields use interchangeable parts that function independently to develop systems meeting specific requirements.
- The aim of SynBio is to identify and create interchangeable molecular parts or toolkits.
