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Drew Endy wants to build
so he needs tools like nuts and bolts standard parts that work together
you don't need a p_h_d_ to know this
but a p_h_d_ would help building with the amy
instead of bricks and steel
this field of biological engineering is growing rapidly
it may sound like science fiction but a new generation of biological engineers
know innocent dead it biologists
is using genetic nuts and bolts to build new functions into living things
the possibilities abound
imagine living microbes that prove biofuels and produced rucksack and save
lives
to andy claims
if you were to decide that you wanted to use biology as a technology for
manufacturing something
might be a chemical or a drug or approved for material
you have to figure out how to reprogram a living organism to do the job
biological engineering specifically synthetic biology is the process to
design and build that living organism
we've known about d_n_a_
the military live blueprint applied since nineteen fifty three
but in order to build from this blueprint unmodified
need to do more than just three
you need to be able to make jeans
building blocks of an organism and assemble them to change the genetic
structure and functions of the realism
so exactly how do you make jeans from scratch
let's say you want to make a change founded kotian bacteria that turned
sells pollute
first you need to know the jeans recipe which is comprised of molecules called
nucleotides that are commonly known by their first letter
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then you can tailor that gene
modifying it to fit your needs
you use a program to specify things about it
like how blew it makes the cells
just submit your order by email and companies with actually built it for you
when it's done our jeanne is mailed off
just makes the gene with water and bacteria cells and blah blah
cells that turn blue
it's the power of synthetic biology wear jeans are assembled into existence sells
to create circuits that program the sales to do new things like make biofuel