Produktinformation
Synthetic Biology (SB) is a revolutionary discipline with a vast range of practical applications, but is SB research really based on engineering principles? Does it contributing to the artificial synthesis of life or does it utilise approaches sufficiently advanced to fall outside the scope of biotechnology or metabolic engineering? This volume reviews the development of SB and includes the major milestones of the discipline, the 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' approaches towards the construction of an artificial cell and the development of the "iGEM" competition. We conclude that SB is an emerging field with extraordinary technological potential, but that most research projects actually are an extension of metabolic engineering since the complexity of living organisms, their tight dependence on evolution and our limited knowledge of the interactions between the molecules, actually make life difficult to engineer.Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-109401793816
ISBN-139789401793810
eBay Product ID (ePID)202801705
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
VerlagSpringer Netherlands, Springer Netherland
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Anzahl der Seiten92 Seiten
PublikationsnameSynthetic Biology
SpracheEnglisch
ProduktartLehrbuch
AutorJuli Peretó
ReiheSpringerbriefs in Biochemistry And Molecular Biology
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
HörbuchNo
MitautorManuel Porcar
InhaltsbeschreibungPaperback
Nummer Innerhalb der Serie12
Item Height5mm
Item Length23cm
Item Weight171g
Item Width15cm