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Front Matter i-xiv
Conference Summary 1-6
IDR Team Summary 1: What new foundational technologies and tools are required to make biology easier to engineer? 7-18
IDR Team Summary 2: What are the significant differences, if any, between risk assessment capacity and religious analyses of the moral permissibility for synthetic biology applications and other biotechnology applications? 19-24
IDR Team Summary 3: Reconstructing gene circuitry: How can synthetic biology lead us to an understanding of the principles underlying natural genetic circuits and to the discovery of new biology? 25-36
IDR Team Summary 4: Designing communities of cells: how do we create communication and collaboration between cells to allow for specialization and division of labor? 37-44
IDR Team Summary 5: Why are human-designed biological circuits and devices fragile and inaccurate relative to their natural counterparts? 45-52
IDR Team Summary 6: How can genomics be leveraged to develop coherent approaches for rapidly exploring the biochemical diversity in and engineering of non-model organisms? 53-60
IDR Team Summary 7: How do we move beyond genetics to engage chemical and physical approaches to synthetic biology? 61-70
IDR Team Summary 8: What is the role of evolution and evolvability in synthetic biology? 71-76
IDR Team Summary 9: How do we maximally capitalize on the promise of synthetic biology? 77-82
Appendixes 83-84
List of Synthetic Biology Podcast Tutorials 85-88
Agenda 89-94
Participants 95-106

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Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries (2010)

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