Synthetic Biology

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

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Community news

• Synthetic Biology:Graduate Graduate Program and Synthetic Biology:Faculty 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.
• The Institute of Biological Engineering's annual meeting (March 10-12, 2006, Univ. of Arizona) will include a Synthetic Biology session and a student paper contest on bioethics!
• Two new public mailing lists have been established to help serve the Synthetic Biology community.
• A new journal Synthetic and Systems Biology has been launched.
• The Synthetic Biology site has undergone major revisions. Post your feedback on the talk page.
• A Synthetic Biology publishing archive has been set up on MIT's DSpace.
• MIT, the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. announce a new study of the societal implications of synthetic genomics. Press releases: MIT, CSIS and Venter Institute. Synthetic Genomics Study

Community news archive

Discussions BioBricks Barcodes Abstraction hierarchy Ontology Construction tutorial Datasheet Parts characterization Error detection & correction in replicating machines Standardized GFP quantification Publishing	Resources Mailing lists BioBricks (in progress) Conferences LBL's Synthetic Biology Lecture Series archive Documents Graduate Programs Faculty Positions Online tools DNAHack, amateur genetic engineering 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 Barcodes BioBrick Parts for Plasmid Engineering Engineering the Host/System Interface Rebuilding T7 SortoStat Standard E. coli Strain for BioBricks 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 Labs Endy Lab Knight Lab Silver Lab See People Page for a listing of members Teams 2005 iGEM MIT team

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