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  Integrating artificial life with synthetic biology: News from Indiana University School of Informatics 

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  Artificial life is an emerging informatics-based discipline that models the behavior of biological systems such as evolution, reproduction, growth, disease, learning, socialization and even death Biologists ... long have focused their microscopes and attention on how the natural world works. Artificial life, in turn, uses complex computing techniques to better understand, visualize and even mimic life's processes. Now comes an approach that combines science and engineering in order to design and construct novel biological parts, devices and biological systems for useful purposes. It's called synthetic biology, and it will be one of the focuses of discussion at the 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems conference, better known as Artificial Life X, being held 3-7 June 2006 The event, sponsored by the Indiana University School of Informatics, brings together some of the world's leading experts in biology, informatics and other disciplines. 'Synthetic   [More...] [Less...]

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  SynBERC - Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center 

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  The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) is a multi-institution research effort to lay the foundation for the emerging field of synthetic biology . SynBERC’s vision is to catalyze biology ... as an engineering discipline by developing the foundational understanding and technologies to allow researchers to design and build standardized, integrated biological systems to accomplish many particular tasks. Just as technicians can now assemble standardized, off-the-shelf electronic components to build computers, synthetic biologists foresee a day when engineers will assemble well-characterized biological components into robust host organisms to achieve specific functions, such as convert biomass into biofuels, or cheaply produce drugs to fight disease, or detect and destroy biochemical agents. The richness and versatility of biological systems make them ideally suited to solve such challenges. But despite great progress in engineering microorganisms, significant challenges per   [More...] [Less...]

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  BioMed Central | The Open Access Publisher 

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  Evolution from fish to mammals was accompanied by decreased use of selenocysteine, raising questions about the need for selenium dietary supplements when pathology is not imminent. For mosquitoes harboring ... resistance alleles against two insecticides, the fitness cost can unexpectedly be lower than being resistant to carbamate alone, a genetic interaction that is difficult to predict and adds complexity to managing pesticide use. Comparison of bacterial flora from two buildings shows indoor bacterial exposure varies seasonally and is clearly different between buildings, probably originating with the building's inhabitants as Gram-positive species associated with human microflora dominate. Milk from scrapie-affected ewes is capable of transmitting the infectious prion protein to unaffected, genetically susceptible lambs, although it remains to be determined whether the lambs then develop scrapie disease symptoms. Protein C was the only variable consistently correlated with both DrotAA tr   [More...] [Less...]

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  SyntheticBiology.net - index 

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  Sloning BioTechnology GmbH The synthesis of genetic constructs via the Slonomics™ technology utilizes various liquid handling, mixing, incubation and microplate handling procedures, performed via a multistep, ... convergent synthesis protocol. For the automated parallel production of such custom gene constructs, we developed a modular system architecture consisting of independently operating robotic stations. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and DNA2.0 Synthetic biology allows for the direct chemical synthesis of any gene, operon and chromosome. Not only does synthetic biology facilitate copying and editing existing genetic information, it also instantly permits the creation of any imaginable completely novel genetic information without being constrained by nature. 06 March 2008 - 09 March 2008 IBE meetings are unique because of the broad participation by scientists and engineers, working in the frontiers of Biology-Inspired Engineering. This meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina will bu   [More...] [Less...]

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