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  <p class="texte">What is synthetic biology?<br>
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Synthetic biology is a new way of research in classical biology.
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It has a double goal: find the minimum configuration necessary to permit the life and to develop new biological fonctions, missing of the nature.<br>
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Born from 3 articles considered as founder and published in the journal Nature in the 2000s, it presents itself like the implantation of engineering systems in living organisms. Indeed, it expects the standardization (thanks to biobricks), characteristic of engineering methods, and also the creation of totally synthetic biological fonctions (design).<br>
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Synthetic biology is an emerging research field in biology. It aims a double goal: i) find the minimum configuration necessary to permit the life, and ii) develop new biological functions, missing in today nature.<br><br>
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One of the older assay to produce a minimal genome organism was the Qβ RNA bacteriophage genome reduction in 1966 (Spiegelman and colleagues). The fashion term of synthetic biology was used since the publication in the 2000s of three Nature articles considered as founder in the acceleration of this discipline, due to molecular biology progress and “omic” data accumulation. Synthetic biology presents itself like the implementation of engineering approaches in living organisms. Indeed, it expects the standardization (due to the use of biobricks, a standard structure for DNA parts), the design of totally de novo synthetic biological functions and, on the opposite, the design of non-biological functions using biological part only as architectural structure.<br><br>
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The iGEM competition (International Genetically Engineered Machine competition):<br>
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The following articles are the result of intense cogitations and discussions that took place throughout the preparation of the competition between students at the iGEM team INSA Toulouse, and a philosophy student from the Catholic Institute at Toulouse.
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Organised for the first time in 2004, the iGEM competition is an international competition of synthetic biology, which takes place every year at MIT in Boston. The purpose of this competition is, in addition to collect and store new biobricks, offer students under the master to confront the problems of scientific research.<br>
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The following articles are the result of thinking and discussing that took place throughout the preparation of the competition between students at the iGEM team INSA Toulouse, and a student of philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse.<br>
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       <li><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:INSA_Toulouse/contenu/human_practice/ethical_aspects/biology_and_electronics">Does synthetic biology mimic electronics?</a></li>
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Should synthetic biology design mimicry of electronic logical rules?
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       <li><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:INSA_Toulouse/contenu/human_practice/ethical_aspects/bacterial_dissemination">What are the risks for nature?</a></li>
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      <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">Why implement Boolean logic in a living cell?</a></li>
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       <li><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:INSA_Toulouse/contenu/human_practice/ethical_aspects/place_of_synthetic_biology">The place of synthetic biology in the our scientific societies</a></li>
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Ethical Aspects

What is synthetic biology?

Synthetic biology is an emerging research field in biology. It aims a double goal: i) find the minimum configuration necessary to permit the life, and ii) develop new biological functions, missing in today nature.

One of the older assay to produce a minimal genome organism was the Qβ RNA bacteriophage genome reduction in 1966 (Spiegelman and colleagues). The fashion term of synthetic biology was used since the publication in the 2000s of three Nature articles considered as founder in the acceleration of this discipline, due to molecular biology progress and “omic” data accumulation. Synthetic biology presents itself like the implementation of engineering approaches in living organisms. Indeed, it expects the standardization (due to the use of biobricks, a standard structure for DNA parts), the design of totally de novo synthetic biological functions and, on the opposite, the design of non-biological functions using biological part only as architectural structure.

The following articles are the result of intense cogitations and discussions that took place throughout the preparation of the competition between students at the iGEM team INSA Toulouse, and a philosophy student from the Catholic Institute at Toulouse.

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