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From Lab to Life: Exploring Synthetic Biology with Drew Endy, John Cumbers, and Jennifer Holmgren
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Synthetic Biology: A Movement to Make Biology Easier to Engineer
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Synthetic biology came about 20 years ago and it was from a group of engineers coming into biology. Drew Endy looked at the process that was going on through genetic engineering bioengineering, he said why does it take millions of dollars to get a product to market? It's because nobody has ever put in the investment to say how do we make biology easier to engineer so they're all really expensive and very slow. The field is a movement that has a vision that in the future we're going to be able to program biology as easily as we can program a computer or a motherboard. We're not there yet but I like to say that synthetic biology is a movement to make Biology easier to
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