Synthetic biology: New engineering rules for an emerging discipline

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Andrianantoandro, Ernesto ^a   Basu, Subhayu ^a   Karig, David K ^a   Weiss, Ron ^a,b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependence; Engineering biology; Multicellular system; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; CELL POPULATION; DEVICE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELLS; ENGINEERING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745454125     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb4100073     Document Type: Review

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