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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

It is believed that the term synthetic biology was created in 1970 by geneticist, Waclaw Szybalski 1 as work was being carried out on the development of DNA sequencing and synthesis techniques. In the UK, work being carried out at Imperial College 4 has seen the engineering of designer cells which could help advance treatment for disease. .