CHE.496/2008/Responses/a12
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Metabolic pathway engineering
- Discussion leader: Patrick Gildea (Discussion guide)
Eyad Lababidi's Response
- Synthetic biology for synthetic chemistry
- This articles is a very good all encompassing crash course to how one would start a Igem project. Each important piece of a synthetic bio cell is defined and explained to best be setup for a cell meant to be harnessed for synthetic biology. The insight on factors that could destroy a project especially through differing metabolic rates seems useful. other explanations were also useful such as why synth bio parts have been mutated to be a bare bones chassis that will readily take up plasmid vectors and evolutionary abilities of the cell have been disabled such as to not evolve away from containing the plasmid.
