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| - | <div class="description"><p align="justify">Synthetic biology is the engineering of biology. Biological parts are used to design and construct novel devices and systems or redesign already existing ones. The purpose is to obtain new functions for useful purposes. </p> | + | <div class="description"><p align="justify"> |
| + | Advances in molecular biology has enabled scientist to study and manipulate the parts that make up the cellular machinery. This has led to the discipline of synthetic biology where biological entities like DNA, RNA and proteins are not seen solely as their function in the cell, but also as an object with a function in various environments, a biological building block. Synthetic biology resembles an engineering discipline where nature's building blocks are combined to create novel systems, functions and molecules.<br><br> | ||
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| + | To use biological parts efficiently one has to understand all aspects of it. It is necessary to analyse and understand the biological machinery, and characterize function, activity, structure, regulation and molecular interactions. Furthermore, in order to combine biological parts, a broad range of tools is necessary. Therefore, synthetic biology is a highly multidisciplinary field. <br><br> | ||
| + | The power of synthetic biology can lead to amazing new inventions, but the manipulation of life and creation of novel biological system has ethical concerns that must be addressed. To read about our ethics profile click here. | ||
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WHAT IS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY?
Advances in molecular biology has enabled scientist to study and manipulate the parts that make up the cellular machinery. This has led to the discipline of synthetic biology where biological entities like DNA, RNA and proteins are not seen solely as their function in the cell, but also as an object with a function in various environments, a biological building block. Synthetic biology resembles an engineering discipline where nature's building blocks are combined to create novel systems, functions and molecules.
Synthetic biology is the engineering of biology. Biological parts are used to design and construct novel devices and systems or redesign already existing ones. The purpose is to obtain new functions for useful purposes.
To use biological parts efficiently one has to understand all aspects of it. It is necessary to analyse and understand the biological machinery, and characterize function, activity, structure, regulation and molecular interactions. Furthermore, in order to combine biological parts, a broad range of tools is necessary. Therefore, synthetic biology is a highly multidisciplinary field.
The power of synthetic biology can lead to amazing new inventions, but the manipulation of life and creation of novel biological system has ethical concerns that must be addressed. To read about our ethics profile click here.
