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- noun
synthetic biology
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Some scientists say this emerging field, known as synbio, will be a major economic force this century.
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Some scientists say this emerging field, known as synbio, will be a major economic force this century.
unknown title 2009
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Some scientists say this emerging field, known as synbio, will be a major economic force this century.
unknown title 2009
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Some scientists say this emerging field, known as synbio, will be a major economic force this century.
unknown title 2009
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The claims for "synbio" include the possibility of generating organisms able to halt climate change by absorbing excess carbon.
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The young "synbio" engineers and biologists, almost all under the age of 40, are heirs to the genetic recombinant movement of the 1970s, which turned the Bay Area into the birthplace of biotechnology.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2008
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Wolpe recommended that the commission address synbio in "a positive way by creating goals and incentives rather than trying to stop things."
Michael Rugnetta: The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology 2010
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He was clearly asking for the commission to be decisively pragmatic in its recommendations for managing the risks and benefits of synbio without completely ignoring various theoretical views and approaches.
Michael Rugnetta: The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology 2010
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During the audience Q & A period, Gerald Epstein of American Association for the Advancement of Science reminded the commission that synbio will only be one component of much larger issues that humanity faces and that and it should try to analyze the implications of synbio for social justice, human security, or the environment "as a whole."
Michael Rugnetta: The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology 2010
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He noted that there is currently no democratic way of allowing the release of synbio technology, to which Dr. Gutmann retorted that there is no democratic way of banning it either.
Michael Rugnetta: The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology 2010
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