The history of synthetic chemistry offers a possible roadmap for the development and impact of synthetic biology, a nascent field in which the goal is to build novel biological systems.

Bringing together engineers, physicists and molecular biologists, the field of synthetic biology uses engineering principles to model, design and build synthetic gene circuits and other molecular ...

Synthetic biology has transformed yeast from a classical model organism into a highly engineerable chassis for next-generation biomanufacturing. By ...

I really wanted to be a part of a larger group of people who were thinking differently about other aspects of synthetic biology—a critical mass that could innovate biotechnology to solve real, ...

Zhang, who had freshly started his own lab after working on metabolic engineering during his postdoctoral research with synthetic biology pioneer Jay Keasling at the University of California, Berkeley ...

Mukunda, Gautam. "What Rough Beast: Synthetic Biology, Uncertainty, and the Future of Biosecurity." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, ...

The transfer of this principle to artificial cells is a challenge in synthetic biology. Advances in DNA nanotechnology now ...