Title: Synthetic Biology Innovation Will Spur More Efficient Chemical Engineering Authors: Devin Leake and Kevin Munnelly Description: In the last few years, chemical engineers have begun to take advantage of a promising new approach known as synthetic biology. This emerging method most often uses rational design togenetically modify an organism to produce bio-based components critical to building chemicals, offering the industry a tantalizing new path to chemical processing that reduces reliance on petroleum-based materials. However, progress in this area has been limited by tedious, manual methods for generating the synthetic DNA needed to enable this research and development. But recently a new, industrial-scale synthetic DNA technology is enabling rapid, large-scale experimentation to develop chemicals rationally, efficiently, and effectively. This next-generation gene synthesis, and the corresponding radically increased capacity, will serve as a powerful turning point in synthetic biology. Ready access to long, reliable DNA constructs will allow chemical engineers to conduct rapid building followed by high throughput testing and subsequent redesigning of microbes to identify the best performers for any given process. With this new innovation, engineers will be able to introduce synthetic biology at an industrial scale to pipelines dedicated to developing bio-based chemicals. Link: omicsonline.org/synthetic-biology-innovation-will-spur-more-efficient-chemical-engineering-2157-7048.1000178.php?aid=21719
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:15:02 +0000
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