Building Artificial Life: An Introductory Overview Of Synthetic Biology

Submission Statement: While origin of life research generally pertains to figuring out the pathways of chemical systems that produced the earliest protocells (in a geochemically plausible scenario), there is a different yet overlapping field that is constantly approaching new frontiers – Synthetic Biology. Synthetic biology is directly concerned with building artificial life, whether it be in the form of protocells/cells, organisms with expanded or reduced genetic…(continue reading in blog post above)