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

• Tucker & Zilinskas discuss synthetic biology and societal policy in the [New Atlantis http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/12/tuckerzilinskas.htm]
• Rosenfeld et al publish a method for inferring the numerical abundance of proteins inside bacteria.
• Ongoing discussion of community self-governance issues; to be resolved by SB2.0. Please contribute!
• BioSpectrum Asia Edition has an article highlighting India's involvement in iGEM this year Synthetic Biology
• Pósfai's & Blattner's groups publish their reduction of E. coli's genome.
• Webcast of MIT "town hall" meeting on community self-governance options.
• Goldman School releases white paper on self-governance of DNA synthesis technology for community-wide discussion and comment.
• Jay Keasling's group publishes a paper about making a lot of artemisinic acid in yeast.
• Keith Joung's group publishes engineered protein-protein interaction paper.
• Registration for the Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB2.0) is open.
• Beachhead has a market analysis for synthetic biology: Synthetic Biology, A New Paradigm for Biological Discovery
• NY Times has an article on Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service.
• Ham Smith's group reports in PNAS on the essential genes of a minimal bacterium.
• The Scientist has an article on Is this life?. Check out the links to opinions on artificial life and the definition of synthetic biology from Endy, Venter, Keasling, Church, Noireaux, Holt, and Blattner.
• Graduate Program and Open Faculty Positions pages started. See Resources section below.

Community news archive

Discussions Applications Abstraction hierarchy Semantic web ontology Error detection & correction in replicating machines Publishing Standardization Synthetic Society SB2.0 proposed biosecurity resolutions If you'd like to contribute, join OpenWetWare!	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 2004 Synthetic Biology Competition Courses BE.109 (MIT) BE.180 (MIT) Implications and Applications of Synthetic Biology (UC Berkeley) MIT IAP 2003 and IAP 2004 projects	Contributors See the list of members. Labs Ellington Lab Endy Lab Keasling Lab Knight Lab Silver Lab Teams 2006 Harvard iGEM team 2006 MIT iGEM team If you'd like to contribute, join OpenWetWare!

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