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

• Community Declaration from Synthetic Biology 2.0
• Arjun (AJ) Bhutkar's article in The Journal of Biolaw & Business analyzing patentability, ethical and regulatory challenges in Synthetic Biology.
• Tucker & Zilinskas discuss promise and perils of synthetic biology in the New Atlantis
• 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.

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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