Synthetic biology [[electronic resource] ] : building on nature's inspiration : interdisciplinary research team summaries : Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, November 20-22, 2009

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785014603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-64486-6; 9786612644863; 0-309-14943-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (120 p.)
• Disciplina: 570.7
• Soggetti: Synthetic biology; Bioengineering; Biotechnology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Conference Summary""; ""IDR Team Summary 1: What new foundational technologies and tools are required to make biology easier to engineer?""; ""IDR Team Summary 2: What are the significant differences, if any, between risk assessment capacity and religious analyses of the moral permissibly for synthetic biology applications and other biotechnology applications?""; ""IDR Team Summary 3: Reconstructing gene circuitry: How can synthetic biology lead us to an understanding of the principles underlying natural genetic circuits and to the discovery of new biology?""""IDR Team Summary 4: Designing communities of cells: how do we create communication and collaboration between cells to allow for specialization and division of labor?""; ""IDR Team Summary 5: Why are human-designed biological circuits and devices fragile and inaccurate relative to their natural counterparts?""; ""IDR Team Summary 6: How can genomics be leveraged to develop coherent approaches for rapidly exploring the biochemical diversity in ; and engineering of non-model organisms?""""IDR Team Summary 7: How do we move beyond genetics to engage chemical and physical approaches to synthetic biology?""; ""IDR Team Summary 8: What is the role of evolution and evolvability in synthetic biology?""; ""IDR Team Summary 9: How do we maximally capitalize on the promise of synthetic biology?""; ""Appendixes""; ""List of Synthetic Biology Podcast Tutorials""; ""Agenda""; ""Participants""