Synthetic biology

The Engineering Biology Research Consortium is “futurist-minded” about synthetic biology, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the University of California at Berkeley.  Its recently completed 20 year “road map” for the field emphasized these technical themes: “. . . tools for producing chromosomal DNA and engineering whole genomes;” “. . . engineering individual biomolecules themselves to have expanded or new functions;” “. . . the development of cell-free systems, synthetic cells, single-cell organisms, multicellular tissues and whole organisms, and microbial consortia and biomes,” and integrating data, modeling and automation.  MORE

Image Credit:  University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley News