Synthetic biology: Building Robust Biocontainment Strategies for Microorganisms
The field of synthetic biology aims to redesign biological parts and systems in microbes as new therapeutic strategies, improvement of crop productions and changes in the manufacturing of high commodity chemicals. However, to realize this substantial growth in the bioeconomy, we must grapple with the biosafety and ecological impacts associated with the intentional and unintentional release of genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs). To address these concerns we are engineering bacterial signaling systems biocontainment systems to control the growth and viability of engineered microbes.
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