Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT, are trying to figure out how to do. Using engineering principles, researchers and students in MIT's Department of Biological Engineering are building a set of "off-the shelf parts" for cells, cataloging and assembling bacterial DNA sequences to produce microbes tailored for a specific task. Such bacteria could have numerous applications in medicine. (source: web.mit.edu)
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