Biología sintética: en la intersección entre sociedad y naturaleza

Authors

  • José A Zamora Spain

Keywords:

Synthetic biology, artificial life, analyzing DNA

Abstract

Synthetic biology pursues a double objective: “creating” artificial life and enabling its industrial exploitation. Within the life sciences, synthetic biology is distinguished by a decided engineering pretension, that is, by the priority it gives to the construction of biological entities, to putting biological phenomena under control or producing them more than—or as much as—to understand them. What differentiates synthetic biology from conventional genetic engineering is that it is not only about reading and analyzing DNA or isolating genes that occur in nature and assembling them in already existing organisms, but about “writing” completely new ones and “ print them” or summarize them below. Thus, it does not only seek to adapt or modify existing biological systems, but also to design, model and build new biological systems. In this way it must be possible to re-synthesize natural genes and produce new genes, new enzymes or even life forms with the capacity to self-reproduce of which similar forms do not exist in current biodiversity.

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Published

2015-02-20

How to Cite

Zamora, J. A. (2015). Biología sintética: en la intersección entre sociedad y naturaleza. Encuentros En La Biología, 8(153), 17–20. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18054