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Benner and Sismour (2005, p. 533).
Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers distinguish between “engineering-oriented” and “basic science-oriented” branches of synthetic biology, which overlap but are nevertheless different in the backgrounds, approaches, and aims of their participants; their example of a basic science-oriented researcher is Michael Elowitz, whose work draws from physics rather than engineering. See Knuuttila and Loettgers (2013).
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Wilbanks, R. Sophia Roosth, Synthetic: How Life Got Made. J Hist Biol 52, 349–352 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-019-9563-1
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