Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: A brave new synthetic world. | Meeting report A brave new synthetic world Farren J Isaacs and Lingchong You Addresses Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston MA 02115 USA. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Duke University 101 Science Drive Durham NC 27708 USA. Correspondence Farren J Issacs. Email farren@ Lingchong You. Email you@ Published 3 February 2009 Genome Biology 2009 10 302 doi gb-2009-10-2-302 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2009 10 2 302 2009 BioMed Central Ltd A report of the first meeting on Frontiers in Synthetic Biology Boston USA 1-2 December 2008. Like Aldous Huxley s Brave New World at the time of its publication the field of synthetic biology currently has skeptics and critics among both scientists and non-scientists. But in contrast to Huxley s pessimistic outlook synthetic biology has the opportunity to highlight the good to society that can be derived from biotechnological breakthroughs. This naturally begs the question what exactly is synthetic biology A meeting at Harvard Medical School last December revisited this frequently posed question. Keynote speaker Clyde Hutchison J Craig Venter Institute Rockville USA offered his perspective while some have a strong desire to sort this out I m not interested in this question as it is largely about semantics and not in itself a scientific question . Nevertheless an analogy to computer science provides a good basis to describe synthetic biology. If we think of the cell as a computer the work of synthetic biologists can be simplified into three main approaches the creation of a minimal computer from basic building blocks software to program a working computer and the application of these devices or knowledge gained in the engineering process. We describe here a few of the highlights of the meeting. Presentations covered a wide .
