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Defining and redefining its role in biology: Synthetic biology as an emerging field at the interface of engineering and biology

2016-12-12

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Synthetic biology is often misunderstood as creation of artificial life or new biology using principles different from those of extant organisms around us. But, fundamentally, the field is about engineering biology in a more efficient and effective way, and endowing new functions in existing organisms using a more refined and predictable approach. Thus, synthetic biology as encapsulated by the field it helps defin...

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Literature Corpus work: aff9c078-bd1f-50ab-a217-ce541a25a4fb
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2634v1

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