Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Synthetic biology has emerged as an exciting and promising new research field, garnering significant attention from both the scientific community and the general public. This interest results from a variety of striking features: synthetic biology is a truly interdisciplinary field that engages biologists, mathematicians, physicists and engineers; its research focus is applied; and it has enormous potential to harness the power of biology to provide scientific and engineering solutions to a wide range of problems and challenges that plague humanity. However, the power of synthetic biology to engineer organisms with custom‐made functionality requires that researchers and society use this power safely and responsibly, in particular when it comes to releasing organisms into the environment. This creates new challenges for both the design of such organisms and the regulatory process governing their creation and use.
Source: EMBO Reports
Institutions: University of Oxford, Imperial College London
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $7,990
Awards: G335031272, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation at Imperial College, Control Engineering Inspired Design Tools for Synthetic Biology, From Robust Synthetic Biological Parts to Whole Systems: Theoretical Practical and Ethical Challenges, Mapping combinatorial stress responses in bacteria using chimeric proteins and probabilistic modelling, Control Engineering Inspired Design Tools for Synthetic Biology, The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics., Stochastic modelling of gene regulation networks.
OpenAlex ID: W2004336532