Overview
- The book will be the first short book on the potential of Synthetic Biology
- The book will be of interest to both active researchers, as well as to a wider non-specialist audience
- The book will present a unique, concise account of Synthetic Biology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BRIEFSBIOCHEM, volume 12)
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About this book
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 biotechnology or metabolic engineering? This volume reviews the development of SB and includes the major milestones of the discipline, the ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches towards the construction of an artificial cell and the development of the “iGEM” competition. We conclude that SB is an emerging field with extraordinary technological potential, but that most research projects actually are an extension of metabolic engineering since the complexity of living organisms, their tight dependence on evolution and our limited knowledge of the interactions between the molecules, actually make life difficult to engineer.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Synthetic Biology
Book Subtitle: From iGEM to the Artificial Cell
Authors: Manuel Porcar, Juli Peretó
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9382-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9381-0Published: 23 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9382-7Published: 09 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-9353
Series E-ISSN: 2211-9361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 77
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine general, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Genetic Engineering, Entomology, Simulation and Modeling