Talking Synthetic Biology — Launch of Synthetic Biology Dialogue Report
Venter does it again — Landmark paper published by the J. Craig Venter Institute
Redesigning ribosomes — Nature paper by the Chin lab
14 December 2009
The December 2009 issue of Nature Biotechnology has a special focus on synthetic biology, with over 10 articles and commentaries by contributors including George Church, Rob Carlson, Christina Smolke.
Articles in the special issue include:
-- 'Synthetic biology: What's in a name?'
-- 'Biotech in the basement' by Joe Alper
-- 'The changing economics of DNA synthesis' by Rob Carlson
-- 'Parts, property and sharing' by Joachim Henkel & Stephen Maurer
-- 'Building outside of the box: iGEM and the BioBricks Foundation' by Christina Smolke
-- 'Should moral objections to synthetic biology affect public policy?' by Gregory Kaebnick
-- 'From synthetic biology to biohacking: are we prepared?' by Gaymon Bennett, Nils Gilman, Anthony Stavrianakis & Paul Rabinow
-- 'Engineering a new business' by Mike May
-- 'Genome engineering' by Peter Carr & George Church
