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Parts and part composition

Leader: Tanja KortemmeThe most basic unit in the design of synthetic biological systems are parts – pieces of DNA, RNA, or protein that encode and/or can carry out a defined biological function(s) –...

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Devices and device composition

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Chassis technologies

Leader: J. Christopher AndersonThe goal of this thrust is to develop a limited number of chassis that should serve a wide range of activities (testbeds). More specifically, we are working toward the...

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Tinkering with cellular circuits

In the March 14 2008 issue of Science, a team of UC San Francisco scientists led by SynBERC Deputy Director Wendell Lim show how a toolkit of modular molecular components and circuit boards can be used...

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Datasheet research points the way for biology standards and abstraction

A central tenet of synthetic biology is that by “black-boxing” the complexity of biology, engineers will ultimately be able to manufacture many easy-to-use genetic devices that function as expected....

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Double inversion switch enables smarter cells with lasting memory

On the path toward sophisticated cellular computation, synthetic biologists are constantly seeking better ways to program logic into cells. One way to do this is using DNA segments known as inversion...

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Scaffold boosts mevalonate yield 77-fold

In the August 2009 edition of Nature Biotechnology, SynBERC researcher John Dueber and company show how they engineered synthetic protein scaffolds to recruit metabolic enzymes in a manner that greatly...

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SynBERC students receive venture award for biofuels start-up

Graduate students Jeffrey Dietrich, Howard Chou, and Eric Steen from the Keasling lab, as well as Angela Won from the Lim lab, participated in the 2009 Idea to IPO class offered by the Center for...

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Yeast Synthetic Biology Workshop

The Yeast Synthetic Biology Workshop took place on Saturday October 16, 2010 at UC San Francisco's Genentech Hall. Generously supported by Life Technologies, this one-day workshop was in response to a...

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Welcome to SynBERC

The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) is a multi-institution research effort to lay the foundation for the emerging field of synthetic biology. SynBERC’s vision is to catalyze...

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