Introduction to Scientific Concepts

2008

• Benner S. A., 2008, Biology from the Bottom Up, Nature 452, no. 10: 692-694.

• Gibson D. G. et al., 2008, Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma Genitalium Genome, Science 319: 1215-1220.

• Keasling J. D., 2008, Synthetic Biology for Synthetic Chemistry, ACS Chemical Biology 3, no. 1: 64-76.

2007

• Ball P., 2007, Designs for Life, Nature 448: 32-33.

• Dhar P. K. and Weiss R., 2007, Editorial: Enabling the New Biology of the 21st Century, Systems and Synthetic Biology 1: 1-2.

• Doktycz M. J. and Simpson M. L., 2007, Nano-Enabled Synthetic Biology, Molecular Systems Biology 3: 1-10.

• Editorial, 2007, IET Synthetic Biology, IET Synthetic Biology 1: 1-2.

• Forster A. C. and Church G. M., 2007, Synthetic Biology Projects in Vitro, Genome Research 17: 1-6.

• Kuldell N., 2007, Authentic Teaching and Learning Through Synthetic Biology, Journal of Biological Engineering 1, no. 8.

• Serrano L., Synthetic biology: promises and challenges, Molecular Systems Biology 3:158 Available here

• Yeh B. J. and Lim W. A., 2007, Synthetic Biology: Lessons From the History of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Nature Chemical Biology 3, no. 9: 521-525.

2006

• Andrianantoandro E. et al., 2006, Synthetic Biology: New Engineering Rules for an Emerging Discipline, Molecular Systems Biology.

• Breithaupt, H., 2006, The Engineer’s Approach to Biology, EMBO Reports 7, no. 1: 21-24. Available here

• Chopra P. and Kamma A., 2006, Engineering Life through Synthetic Biology, In Silico Biology 6.

• Forster A. C. and Church G. M., 2006, Towards Synthesis of a Minimal Cell, Molecular Systems Biology, no. 45: 1-10.

• Fu P., 2006, A Perspective of Synthetic Biology: Assembling Building Blocks for Novel Functions, Biotechnology 1: 690-699.

• Heinemann M. and Panke S., 2006, Synthetic biology – putting engineering into biology, Bioinformatics, Vol. 22: 2790-9. Available here

• Glass J. I. et al., 2006, Essential Genes of a Minimal Bacterium, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, no. 2: 425-430.

2005

• Ball P., 2005, Synthetic Biology for Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology 16: R1-R8.

• Benner, S., Sismour A., 2005, Synthetic biology, Nature Reviews Genetics, Vol. 6: 533-543. Available here

• Church G. M., 2005, Editorial: From Systems Biology to Synthetic Biology, Molecular Systems Biology.

• Deamer D., 2005, A Giant Step Towards Artificial Life?, Trends in Biotechnology 23, no. 7: 336-338.

• Editorial, 2005 Life Is What You Make It, Nature 438: 396.

• Endy D., 2005, Foundations for engineering biology, Nature 438 7067: 449-453. Available here

• Knight T. F., 2005, Engineering Novel Life, Molecular Systems Biology: 1.

• Moses A., 2005, Intelligent Design: Playing With the Building Blocks of Biology, Berkeley Science Review 5, no. 1: 34-40.

• Pennisi E., 2005, Synthetic Biology Remakes Small Genomes, Science 310: 769-770.

• Spinzak D. and Elowitz M. B., 2005, Reconstruction of Genetic Circuits, Nature 438: 443-448.

2004

• Ball P., 2004, Starting from Scratch, Nature 431: 624-626.

• Brent R., 2004, A Partnership between Biology and Engineering, Nature Biotechnology 22, no. 10: 1211-1214.

• Editorial, 2004, Futures of Artificial Life, Nature 431, no. 7009: 613.

• Ferber D., 2004, Microbes Made to Order, Science: 158-161.

2002

• Cello J., Paul A. V., and Wimmer E., 2002, Chemical Synthesis of Poliovirus CDNA: Generation of Infectious Virus in the Absence of Natural Template, Science 297: 1016-1018.

2000

• Elowitz M. B. and Leibler S., 2000, A Synthetic Oscillatory Network of Transcription Regulators, Nature 403: 335-338.

• Gardner T. S., Cantor C. R., and Collins J. J., 2000, Construction of a Genetic Toggle Switch in Escherchia Coli, Nature 403: 339-342.

1999

• Hutchison III C. A. et al., 1999, Global Transposon Mutagenesis and a Minimal Mycoplasma Genome, Science 286, no. 5447: 2165-2169.