DNA Factory Builds Up Steam

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DNA Factory Builds Up Steam
Six months since it launched, the world's first factory for making professional-quality biological DNA 'parts' is beginning to stock its shelves. More than 60 people — academic researchers, industry partners and interested members of the community — joined the staff at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB), at a meeting on 19 and 20 July to discuss the facility's progress so far and its aims over the next few years. BIOFAB aims to supply synthetic biologists with a collection of genetic parts that they can use in their experiments. Biological parts — actually sequences of DNA — should have known and predictable functions, so they can be inserted into cells to boost the production of a particular protein, for example, or make it sensitive to a specific toxin. BIOFAB has begun to add some early attempts at parts sequences to its registry. But there is still some way to go before the fruits of BIOFAB's labours can be useful to researchers, says Drew Endy, the facility's director and a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto.

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DNA Factory Builds Up Steam
Six months since it launched, the world's first factory for making professional-quality biological DNA 'parts' is beginning to stock its shelves. More than 60 people — academic researchers, industry partners and interested members of the community — joined the staff at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB), at a meeting on 19 and 20 July to discuss the facility's progress so far and its aims over the next few years. BIOFAB aims to supply synthetic biologists with a collection of genetic parts that they can use in their experiments. Biological parts — actually sequences of DNA — should have known and predictable functions, so they can be inserted into cells to boost the production of a particular protein, for example, or make it sensitive to a specific toxin. BIOFAB has begun to add some early attempts at parts sequences to its registry. But there is still some way to go before the fruits of BIOFAB's labours can be useful to researchers, says Drew Endy, the facility's director and a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto

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