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Programming cellular function

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The process of cellular engineering is rapidly accelerating owing to advances in technologies to manipulate DNA and other biomolecules, giving rise to the field of synthetic biology. A meeting was held in August 2005 to present progress in the field and to discuss topics in ethics, safety and security.

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  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, 94143-2540, California, USA

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  2. Department of Chemical Engineering and the Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, 94720-3224, California, USA

    Jay D Keasling

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