Radar Theme: Synthetic Biology（Radar主题：合成生物学）
Nat Torkington
2008-08-05
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[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] Drew Endy taught undergraduate students how to make e. coli bacteria that smelled like wintergreen, using his biobricks. This shows us a future for biology where "useful biological tasks" can be "automated" using "components". The quotes indicate where research and development are going—building components, figuring out how biological amateurs can assemble them, and to what end. The overlap with open source and the low-barrier-to-entry that's reminiscent of the web are particularly interesting to us. Watch list: Drew Endy, George Church, Christina Smolke, Open Wetware, Ginkgo Bioworks. |
翻译：西门吹雪 [这是Radar系列文章的一部分，本系列会简述在O'Reilly我们正在关注的一些趋势。] Drew Endy给本科生讲如何用他的生物砖制造闻起来像鹿踢草的大肠杆菌。这向我们展示了生物学未来很多“有用的生物学任务”将可以用“组件”完成。研究和开发正朝着这一方先发展——构建组件，生物学爱好者如何组建它们以及最终结果是什么。其与开源的共通之处以及与Web相同的低门槛非常吸引我们。 关注列表: Drew Endy、George Church、Christina Smolke、Open Wetware、Ginkgo Bioworks。 |
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