DNA Factory Plans To Open Within 6 Months
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Jul 29, 2010, 8:09:05 PM7/29/10
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Factory Plans To Open Within 6 Months
Good news for all you aspiring Craig Venters out there. Before the end of the year, synthetic biologists will have a stocked factory of DNA building blocks with which to remix microbe life forms – one that will provide standardized, reliable components for the most creative of life sciences. Best of all? It’s free. As we previously reported, the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) is a project to produce thousands of standardized genetic “parts” for researchers to use in the pioneering work of synthetic biology. Started with a seed grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), BIOFAB is the world’s very first biological design-build facility. They will be providing bioparts to researchers gratis to speed along national research into new drugs, biofuels, chemicals, you name it – all the promising frontiers of synthetic biology. And they should be open for business within 6 months. So what exactly is a synthetic biology “part”? Good question – that was exactly the topic of the project’s first human practices report. The short answer is that biological parts are small snippets of DNA with basic, well-understood functions (e.g. the production of a certain protein). Building a microbe from scratch is no easy task, especially if you have to identify and characterize all of these building blocks yourself. That’s exactly what synthetic biologists have been doing – it costs millions of dollars and takes years of legwork.
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Good news for all you aspiring Craig Venters out there. Before the end of the year, synthetic biologists will have a stocked factory of DNA building blocks with which to remix microbe life forms – one that will provide standardized, reliable components for the most creative of life sciences. Best of all? It’s free. As we previously reported, the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) is a project to produce thousands of standardized genetic “parts” for researchers to use in the pioneering work of synthetic biology. Started with a seed grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), BIOFAB is the world’s very first biological design-build facility. They will be providing bioparts to researchers gratis to speed along national research into new drugs, biofuels, chemicals, you name it – all the promising frontiers of synthetic biology. And they should be open for business within 6 months. So what exactly is a synthetic biology “part”? Good question – that was exactly the topic of the project’s first human practices report. The short answer is that biological parts are small snippets of DNA with basic, well-understood functions (e.g. the production of a certain protein). Building a microbe from scratch is no easy task, especially if you have to identify and characterize all of these building blocks yourself. That’s exactly what synthetic biologists have been doing – it costs millions of dollars and takes years of legwork.
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