In the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, ... P.C.R., or polymerase chain reaction, has been a key tool in genetic engineering since the late 1980s — a way to copy, ...

In one sense, synthetic biology is the latest phase of genetic engineering. As the next, and more “extreme,” phase, it’s already controversial, stirring up old debates over what happens when ...

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Advocates claim that synthetic biology and the so-called New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) are distinct from genetic engineering (GE), write Helena Paul, Elisabeth Bücking & Ricarda Steinbrecher. In fact ...

The company aims to rely on engineering principles to create a library of genetic building blocks. These can be used, James argues, to engineer mammalian cells with, for example, high levels of ...

Synthetic biology leverages advances in genetic engineering and other fields of biotech to develop amazing new applications. We can harness our exceptional biodiversity for everyone’s benefit if ...

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