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HTTP:: New Efforts to Push Synthetic Biology to Mass Production
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A group of five specialists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has recently founded a start-up company, known as Ginkgo BioWorks, with the stated goal of making synthetic biology systems as easy to produce as bread. Its headquarters are located in Boston, and the team says that its first order of business will be to start assembling biological parts such as the strings of specific genes for industrial and academic use, Technology Review reports. “Think of it as rapid prototyping in biology â€" we make the part, test it, and then expand on it. You can spend more time thinking about the design, rather than doing the grunt work of making DNA,” one of the company's Co-founders, Reshma Shetty, explains. For example, the expert adds, assembling two pieces of DNA together in a specific pattern may cost more than $100, as a base price. Of course, more intricate work means that the price tag goes way up as well. The team says that research groups around the !
world would benefit from its company, in that they would no longer have to spend so much time making the constructs themselves. Rather, they could just order them from Ginkgo BioWorks. The goal of synthetic biology is not necessarily to create entirely new organs, to be used in transplants and such. Rather, it ai...
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