Nov 9th 2006
Futures in Biotech 8
Drew Endy on Synthetic Biology
A look at the the emerging field of Synthetic Biology...
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Guest: Dr. Drew Endy, Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT
A look at the the emerging field of Synthetic Biology. According to Dr. Endy, "We?re going from looking at the living world as only coming from nature, to a subset of the living world being produced by engineers, who design and build hopefully useful living artifacts according to our specifications" (MITWorld).
For more details, visit Marc Pelletier's blog at http://futuresinbiotech.blogspot.com/.
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And also thanks to the Band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!