Analysis and Description of Synthetic Biology

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Synthetic biology, “the aim is to create improved biological functions to fight current and future challenges”. Like all engineering disciples’ synthetic biology is motivated by application to solve specific problems” (3, 7). “Like chemistry biology is the study of living things. Synthetic biology is replicating and recreating nature, which allows it to sometimes control living things (6). Larger quantities of Artemisinin a drug for malaria will be due to the new E coli strain. Thoughts are that it may be able to produce food, optimize industrial processing and detect, prevent and cure cancer (1, 3). Synthetic biology will create DNA that is modified, “it will be able to tweak things”. The engineering component of synthetic biology provides new complex function in cells vastly, more efficient, reliable, predictable” (2, 4). Studies say the synthetic biology industry to grow in value to 10.5 billion dollars by 2016 from 1.6 billion in 2011. Synthetic biology has endless possibilities (7, 10).

In the mid nineteenth century scientist started synthesizing molecules instead of looking a...

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