synthetic biology

[ sin-thet-ik bahy-ol-uh-jee ]

noun

1. the development and application of scientific methods to create or redesign biological organisms and systems using lab-made DNA. Compare genetic engineering ( def 1 ), CRISPR ( def 2 ).

synthetic biology

noun

1. the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems

Word History and Origins

Origin of synthetic biology¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

He co-led the study with Rosa Martinez Corral, a former post-doctoral researcher in his lab who now leads a research group in systems and synthetic biology at CRG.

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"The production of the potent vaccine adjuvant QS-21 in yeast highlights the power of synthetic biology to address both major environmental, as well as human, health challenges," said former UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Yuzhong Liu, first author of the paper and now an assistant professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California.

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"I am gratified that synthetic biology has come so far that we can now build a pathway to produce a molecule like QS-21. It's a testament to how far the field has progressed in the last two decades."

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"The dream is to have technology similar to what's available today for monitoring and treating variations in blood glucose, and have that be true for basically any drug," said Ajo-Franklin, a bioscientist, cancer researcher and director of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute .

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Additionally, the team's gene editing toolkit is huge leap forward for the field of synthetic biology as a whole.

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