Engineering Biology Explained
Engineering Biology Explained: A guide to engineering biology and UK excellence in the field
Genomics, engineering biology and related data and analytics tools are also helping fuel innovative approaches to tackling pathogenic bacteria. These may provide new, more effective and less toxic medicines for a range of life-threatening infections.
Engineering biology (also called ‘synthetic biology’), is industrialising DNA sequencing, manufacture and editing, making all of it cheaper and more accessible – rather like Microsoft Word did for text-editing. A new generation of software and systems are being built to support such work, within ‘wet-dry’ laboratories that contain both test-tubes and computers.
