Scientists revealed that synthetic biology has diverse uses, as it can be used to make nonpolluting fuel, instant vaccines against new diseases and inexpensive medicines. The technology fails to pose immediate environmental, security or ethical concerns, as per the researchers, an ethicist and members of Congress. Jay Keasling of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California shared that vaccine maker Sanofi Aventis has licensed technology to make engineered brewer's yeast that produces the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. More>
Friday, May 28, 2010
Synthetic Biology has Diverse Uses
Scientists revealed that synthetic biology has diverse uses, as it can be used to make nonpolluting fuel, instant vaccines against new diseases and inexpensive medicines. The technology fails to pose immediate environmental, security or ethical concerns, as per the researchers, an ethicist and members of Congress. Jay Keasling of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California shared that vaccine maker Sanofi Aventis has licensed technology to make engineered brewer's yeast that produces the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. More>
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