The Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemological Notes for Synthetic Biology

Chemical Synthetic Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 343-362

  Luisi, Pier Luigi ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

"bio bricks" or genetic elements made available commercially; Emergentism, real basis of SB researchers not conscious of it; Framework of epistemology to growing field of SB; Major operational scheme of SB and modularity, a "cut and paste" of genetic parts from one organism to another; SB and making life in the laboratory and questions of "what is life"; SB, spreading in academic world and in applied industrial research; Setting framework of SB keeping clear from artificial life (AL); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Z) on alternative DNA forms chemical SB ante litteram; Synthetic approach in biology epistemological notes for synthetic biology (SB); Two souls of synthetic biology

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EID: 84863628223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470977873.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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