“Genetic engineering techniques are abysmally primitive, akin to swapping random parts between random cars to produce a better car. Yet our ignorance will fade; biological engineering will become a reality relatively soon.” – Letter to New York Times, 12 December 2000, by Rob Carlson, synthetic biologist and senior scientist in electrical engineering, University of Washington
Synthetic biology (also known as Synthetic Genomics, Synbio, Systems Biology or Constructive Biology) is construction of new biological parts/systems that donot exist in co-existing natural world or to manipulate the existing ones to perform special human desirable tasks. Synbio is inspired by the advancement of nanoscale biology, computing and engineering. Just about anyone has the potential to construct genes or entire genomes from scratch using a laptop, gene sequence information and synthetic DNA
Synthetic biology (also known as Synthetic Genomics, Synbio, Systems Biology or Constructive Biology) is construction of new biological parts/systems that donot exist in co-existing natural world or to manipulate the existing ones to perform special human desirable tasks. Synbio is inspired by the advancement of nanoscale biology, computing and engineering. Just about anyone has the potential to construct genes or entire genomes from scratch using a laptop, gene sequence information and synthetic DNA
