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Biology is a Burrito

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1 One rarely pauses to ponder how so much DNA — let alone sugar, proteins, and everything else — can fit inside such a small vessel. Biochemistry textbooks depict cells as spacious places, where molecules float in secluded harmony. Without mathematics, I learned, biology is naked; we can only comprehend it at arm's length.

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Levers for Biological Progress

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For example, cloning DNA molecules and inserting them into cells — a process required for basically all experiments in molecular biology — takes up to a week of work. But looking ahead to the second bottleneck, what does it mean to say that biology is “complex”? Even the humble E.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2009). Link The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 , by Meng F. & Link Synthetic biology in mammalian cells: next generation research tools and therapeutics , by Lienert F. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2014). . & Weiss R.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2009). Link The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 , by Meng F. & Link Synthetic biology in mammalian cells: next generation research tools and therapeutics , by Lienert F. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2014). Nature Methods (2013).

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