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英国伦敦“DNA工厂”开业

Source: CRI    2016-04-08  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

The 2-million-pound factory, which is called the Foundry, has recently opened at Imperial College London.

This special institution plans to industrialise the process of preparing DNA for use in synthetic biology.

The DNA will, in turn, be turned into biological "devices" - mini production centres for antibiotics, vaccines and even for making fuel.

Professor Paul Freemont, who leads the new DNA hub, says this technology will be beneficial to the environment.

DNA工厂

"This is the future about how we're going to build and manufacture, you know really complex molecules like drugs, or pharmaceuticals, or even commodity chemicals, you know the idea of removing our reliance on petrochem