Drew Endy

Building a Synthetic Biological Programming Language

It sounds like a science fiction scheme, but it’s real.   Drew Endy and the students in his lab at Stanford are exploring the process of programming cells to manufacture DNA. By developing processes to send messages from genomes to cells, they hope to open the key to create a kind of synthetic biological programming platform.   […]

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