Synthetic Biology:Who we are

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We are a group of students, faculty and staff from MIT and Harvard who are committed to engineering biology in an open and ethical manner.

Specifically, we are working to

• specify and populate a set of standard parts that have well-defined performance characteristics and can be used (and re-used) to build biological systems,
• develop and incorporate design methods and tools into an integrated engineering environment,
• reverse engineer and re-design pre-existing biological parts and devices in order to expand the set of functions that we can access and program
• reverse engineer and re-design a 'simple' natural bacterium.

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Making life better, one part at a time.