Synthetic Biology

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Synthetic Biology is
A) the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and
B) the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes.

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Community news

• Article in the NY Times on synthetic biology.
• Ham Smith's group reports in PNAS on the essential genes of a minimal bacterium.
• Article on artificial life in the New Scientist. Check out the links to opinions on artificial life and what Synthetic Biology is from Endy, Venter, Keasling, Church, Noireaux, Holt, and Blattner.
• Graduate Program and Open Faculty Positions pages started. See Resources section below.
• Special issue on synthetic biology in Nature including the Adventures in Synthetic Biology comic
• EU Synthetic Biology funding announcement
• Pamela Silver's lecture & Lisa Geller's discussion on Synthetic Biology (mp3 file)
• 2005 iGEM Jamboree gets underway, 5 November 2005 (MIT, News)
• Freeman Dyson's talk on the Future of Evolution.
• Mitsuhiro Itaya's group reports in PNAS on combining two genomes in one cell.
• Laurie Zoloth's recent lecture on ethics & Synthetic Biology.
• Paul Rabinow's recent lecture on security & Synthetic Biology.

Community news archive

Discussions Applications Abstraction hierarchy Semantic web ontology Error detection & correction in replicating machines Standardized GFP quantification Publishing Standardization Synthetic Society	Resources Mailing lists Conferences LBL's Synthetic Biology Lecture Series archive Documents Graduate Programs Faculty Positions Online tools Press articles Recent Synthetic Biology papers: PubMed, Cite-U-Like Related links
Initiatives The BioBricks Foundation OpenWetWare Registry of Standard Biological Parts Synthetic Genomics Study	Projects BioBricks (help wanted!) Engineering the Host/System Interface Rebuilding T7 SortoStat TABASCO
Outreach Information About us FAQ Competitions iGEM 2005 2004 Synthetic Biology Competition Courses BE.109 (under development) IAP 2003 and IAP 2004 projects Implications and Applications of Synthetic Biology (UC Berkeley)	Contributors See the list of members. Labs Ellington Lab Endy Lab Keasling Lab Knight Lab Silver Lab Teams 2005 iGEM MIT team

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