Posts Tagged ‘Biology’

...  Biology Today and Tomorrow: The Way Entrepreneurs and Visionaries Want the World to Be Event on 2011-02-12 09:00:00 Date: Saturday February 12, 2011 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Baxter Lecture Hall Our February program will focus on the entrepreneurial opportunities and challenges of building a business based on synthetic biology. “Synthetic biology” is the term that has come to mean the development of fundamental building blocks that can be used to create biological elements with predictable characteristics, but which do not exist in nature. Early commercial applications include microbes created with synthetic biology techniques and already used as sources of alternative fuel sources. However, the frontier will be the engineering of biological elements that can be used in medicine. That will take ...