Engineering began as an outgrowth of the craftwork of metallurgical artisans. In a constant quest to improve their handiwork, those craftsmen exhaustively and empirically explored the propertiesโalone and in combinationโof natural materials. The knowledge accumulated from this exploration and experimentation with natural building blocks eventually led to todayโs modern technologies.
Today, there is a parallel progression unfolding in the field of synthetic biology, which encompasses the engineering of biological systems from genetically encoded molecular components
Unlike other engineering disciplines, synthetic biology canโand shouldโbe guided by the natural blueprints and organizational principles of evolution, the ultimate โtinkererโ at the cellular level.
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