Engineering Biology
Where will we be 30 years from now? 1995: haemophilus influenza sequence. 2001: draft of human genome available. 2007: multiple chromosomes assembled from scratch, bacterial virus, or organelle. 2012: design of eukaryotic chromosomes should be routine. You want to build baker’s yeast from scratch? Also, five years from now, we may have just begun to make some good progress on reliable functional composition of standard biological parts. Nobody knows how expensive solving that problem will be, but because biology works there’s plenty of existence proofs.
Drew Endy, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, on Edge
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