Synthetic Biology
Written by admin on January 7th, 2009Synthetic Biology: It’s Not What You Learned, But What You Made
I’ll not pretend to understand all of this article, but I can get enough to believe engineers are looking for methods to build synthetic DNA strands by hacking natural methods. Read about the ‘Black box’ methadology and the simplification of understanding the process by ignoring the complexity of the natural process between input and output. Certainly some questions to ask about how science will approve these procedures for public access.
The best quote is from Tom Knight, describing the history and future of science behind electronics research.
“At the end of the 1800s… basically, physics had told
you everything that there was to know about electronics,” Knight said.
“What
happened subsequently though, is that we had a century of invention
which really was in some sense, not science, but engineering… My
outlook is that this century will be dominated by the engineering that
comes out of biology.”
you everything that there was to know about electronics,” Knight said.
“What
happened subsequently though, is that we had a century of invention
which really was in some sense, not science, but engineering… My
outlook is that this century will be dominated by the engineering that
comes out of biology.”