Other people living in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to be given awards include Professor Janet Thornton, head of the European Bioinformatics Institute, who was made a Dame for services to bioinformatics, the application of computer science to the field of biology and medicine.
The question why human beings are collaborative continues to bedevil the field of evolutionary biology.
What scares many people about the emerging field of synthetic biology is the lack of official safeguards.
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.
The Vatican does not often react to science in the news this rapidly, and certainly not to be as positive as it was about a ground-breaking development in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
Though we are in the earliest days of developing the emerging field of synthetic biology, in the coming years, it promises to have massive impact on everything from business to medicine and energy to warfare.
But Kirk says everything he has done in the past pales next to the potential of his latest project: Intrexon, a secretive research-stage company that is working on the hot new field of synthetic biology basically genetic engineering on steroids.
Codon is aiming to become the leading player in a new field called "synthetic biology, " creating tools by which cells and their genetic material can be more precisely engineered in order to create new medicines and industry.
Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
And Kim may be ideally suited for the job because of his wide knowledge of molecular biology, a field being transformed by new understanding of the chemical basis of life.
Full shares his hypothesis with engineers who test the biological principles on their robots, they are often able to offer biologists new insights into the ways in which animals move, resulting in advancements not only for the field of robotics but for biology, too.
Synthetic biology is such a small field right now that Keasling and Somerville were both initially involved with LS9, but left, leaving Harvard researcher George Church as the main scientific founder.
The prize rewards the efforts of an individual, an institution, a non-governmental organisation or another entity which, through research and development, has made an outstanding contribution to the field of microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.) and its applications.
Eventually, thanks to a degree she has in biology and previous work in the field, she landed work as a biologist, allowing her to hold on to her 572-square-foot log cabin on three acres, where she takes in stray dogs and raises horses that double as sculpting models.
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One of the pioneers of this field was the late Robert Ledley whose book on the Use of Computers in Biology and Medicine was published in 1965.
For example, work in the field of epigenetics demonstrates that environment can have a profound influence on how DNA impacts biology.
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