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To Drew Endy, all the great breakthroughs in biotechnology of the past 30 years were mere tweaks.
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Endy, along with three synthetic-biology comrades, started a company called Codon Devices in Cambridge, Mass. in late 2004 to industrialize the construction of genes.
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Endy, along with three synthetic-biology comrades, started a company called Codon Devices in Cambridge, Massachusetts in late 2004 to industrialize the construction of genes.
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Endy aims for similar standardization in the new field of synthetic biology, and embraces the radical approach of creating a free registry of building blocks.
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Both Endy and UC, Berkeley's Keasling say that unless basic components are made freely available it will be too expensive to make anything useful or complex.
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"This new work demonstrates that there is a whole new market for these technologies, to synthesize DNA for people who want to store information, " said Dr. Endy.
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Endy has a grand ambition: to edit living organisms.
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Endy came to synthetic biology in a roundabout way.
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In coming years, Endy says, we'll begin to see the first custom-crafted biomachines: cells that can keep track of how old they are or bacteria engineered to hunt down and kill tumor cells.
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"I think if we pull it off, it changes everything to do with our interaction with the living world, " says Drew Endy , a young MIT professor who is one of the company's co-founders.
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"I don't have a perfect answer, " says Endy.
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