Synthetic biology, tinkering biology, and artificial biology. What are we learning?

Comptes Rendus Chimie

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-387

  Benner, Steven A ^a,b   Yang, Zunyi ^a,b   Chen, Fei ^a,b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION   (United States)

^b Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biobricks; Mars exploration; Nucleic acids; Paleogenetics; Philosophy of science; Synthetic biology; Tinkering

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954629875     PISSN: 16310748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crci.2010.06.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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