NSF grant to launch world's first open-source genetic parts production facility - 0 views
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al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif on 14 Jan 12"With seed money from the National Science Foundation (NSF), bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to characterize the thousands of control elements critical to the engineering of microbes so that eventually, researchers can mix and match these "DNA parts" in synthetic organisms to produce new drugs, fuels or chemicals."