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Title: What is Synthetic Biology?
Post by: thedoc on 18/05/2010 18:39:50

What do we mean when we talk about Synthetic Biology? What does it involve? Dr Jim Haseloff from Cambridge University explains...
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1329/)
or [chapter podcast=2580 track=10.05.16/Naked_Scientists_Show_10.05.16_6270.mp3](https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenakedscientists.com%2FHTML%2Ftypo3conf%2Fext%2Fnaksci_podcast%2Fgnome-settings-sound.gif&hash=f2b0d108dc173aeaa367f8db2e2171bd) Listen to it now[/chapter] or [download as MP3] (http://nakeddiscovery.com/downloads/split_individual/10.05.16/Naked_Scientists_Show_10.05.16_6270.mp3)

Title: What is Synthetic Biology?
Post by: Haric on 27/05/2010 12:35:04

Synthetic biology is commonly used in the study of genetics.With synthetic biology,researchers can create a DNA model and place it inside living cells in order to observe the outcome. [:I]

Title: Re: What is Synthetic Biology?
Post by: smart on 25/03/2016 11:34:56

Synthetic biology aims to engineer life at the molecular level.  I think the complexity of biological systems and the limited knowledge of biology is however a reasonable issue for creating novel synthetic organisms. Synthetic biology appears to be driven by mankind ambition to control and regulate life for profit...   

Title: Re: What is Synthetic Biology?
Post by: evan_au on 27/03/2016 03:22:21

An interview with Craig Venter on his recent attempt to create a living organism with the minimal number of genes (17 minute podcast).
http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/minimalist-biology-craig-venters-latest-life-form/

They found they needed 473 genes - but about 30% of them have no known function!
They originally left these unknown genes out of the artificial genome, and the organism was not viable.