Synthetic Biology Continues to Heat Up

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Synthetic Biology Continues to Heat Up

• Human Beings Also Want to Be the Creators.

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• Human beings have always been difficult to
  suppress the inner impulses to be the Creators
  while exploring the origin of life. One hundred
  years ago, the French chemist Stephane Leduc was
  inspired by synthetic organic chemistry and then
  became the first person to create the word
  synthetic biology. Along with the development
  of genomics, systematic biology and some other
  relevant disciplines, researches on synthetic
  biology are constantly forward.  

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• As the name suggests, synthetic biology is to
  redesign and transform the current biological
  system by using some synthetic methods.
  Furthermore, the progresses of genomics and
  related disciplines have promoted the advance of
  synthetic biology to a large degree.
• To be more general, genomics brings massive
  genetic information and high-throughput genomic
  technologies, which leads scientific researches
  into the era of systematic and synthetic biology.
  And it makes a revolutionary effect on industrial
  biotechnology as well.

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• As a professor from the University of California,
  Berkeley, Jay Keasling has said that synthetic
  biology will probably create a rapid development
  in modern biotechnology industry 2.0, just like
  genetic engineering. Professor Chen Guoqiang,
  from the School of Life Science of Tsinghua
  University, also pointed out that synthetic
  biology has shown a way for the future that can
  improve the potential competitiveness of
  industrial biotechnology, reduce the cost of
  biopharmaceuticals and create the possibility of
  modified organisms.

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• Meanwhile, under the support of venture
  investment, a group of small and medium-sized
  biotech companies have begun to create a large
  number of new platfoem chemicals, as well as some
  biosynthetic methods of pharmaceutical compounds.
  In addition, they have also developed some
  appropriate bio-manufacturing technologies.

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• Certainly, it is true that China has also payed
  an important role in such issue. In this way,
  various Chinese goverment departments should
  concern more about the development of synthetic
  biology. With the support from a series of
  sectors, the development of synthetic biology
  will step into a new era. However, diverse
  problems and difficulties still exist because
  people know little about the biological
  mechanisms.

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• To be brief, despite of a large number of
  challenges, biological field has gained great
  achievements in recent years. Additionally,
  compared with other technologies, such field also
  possesses huge potential. Taking into account of
  all the current realities, many experts still
  hold the opinion that it is possible to make
  greater success in the realm of synthetic
  biology.
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