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Drew Endy

American bioengineer
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  • synthetic biology; Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0
    synthetic biology
    / BioBricks and xeno-nucleic acids

    …synthetic biology was American bioengineer Drew Endy, who founded the nonprofit BioBricks Foundation. Endy was developing a catalogue of information needed to synthesize basic biological parts, or “bricks,” from DNA and other molecules. Other scientists and engineers were able to use this information to build whatever biological products they wanted,…

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    …synthetic biology was American bioengineer Drew Endy, who founded the nonprofit BioBricks Foundation. Endy was developing a catalogue of information needed to synthesize basic biological parts, or “bricks,” from DNA and other molecules. Other scientists and engineers were able to use this information to build whatever biological products they wanted,…

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