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Title Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century : Summary Report of a Six Academies Symposium Series
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (80 pages)
Contents FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Synthetic Biology: Science and Technology for the New Millennium -- 3 Strategies for Advancing Synthetic Biology -- 4 Opportunities and Challenges Emerging via a Networked World -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: London Symposium Agenda -- Appendix B: Shanghai Symposium Agenda -- Appendix C: Washington, DC Symposium Agenda
Summary Annotation Synthetic biology -- unlike any research discipline that precedes it -- has the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher in a new and dynamic way of working with living systems. Ultimately, synthetic biologists hope to design and build engineered biological systems with capabilities that do not exist in natural systems -- capabilities that may ultimately be used for applications in manufacturing, food production, and global health. Importantly, synthetic biology represents an area of science and engineering that raises technical, ethical, regulatory, security, biosafety, intellectual property, and other issues that will be resolved differently in different parts of the world. As a better understanding of the global synthetic biology landscape could lead to tremendous benefits, six academies -- the United Kingdom's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, the United States' National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering -- organized a series of international symposia on the scientific, technical, and policy issues associated with synthetic biology. Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century summarizes the symposia proceedings
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Subject Synthetic biology -- Congresses
Biology.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Physical sciences.
Synthetic biology.
Bioengineering
Biology
Engineering
Biological Science Disciplines
Natural Science Disciplines
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
Technology, Industry, Agriculture
Disciplines and Occupations
Synthetic Biology
biology.
engineering.
biological sciences.
physical sciences.
SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical.
Synthetic biology.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Council, National Research
Affairs, Policy and Global
ISBN 9780309225847
0309225841
0309225833
9780309225830