Synthetic Biology From iGEM to the Artificial Cell /

• Main Authors: Porcar, Manuel (Author), Peretó, Juli (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 12
• Subjects: Medicine.; Genetic engineering.; Computer simulation.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Entomology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Genetic Engineering.; Simulation and Modeling.

Synthetic Biology (SB) is a revolutionary discipline with a vast range of practical applications, but is SB research really based on engineering principles? Does it contributing to the artificial synthesis of life or does it utilise approaches sufficiently advanced to fall outside the scope of biote...