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In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools.
In Synthetic How Life Got Made, cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. The first book-length ethnographic study of this discipline, Synthetic documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Roosth traces this new science from its origins at MIT to start-ups, laboratories, conferences, and hackers’ garages across the United States—even to contemporary efforts to resurrect extinct species. Her careful research reveals that rather than opening up a limitless new field, these biologists’ own experimental tactics circularly determine the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon. Exploring the life sciences emblematic of our time, Synthetic tells the origin story of the astonishing claim that biological making fosters biological knowing.
In Synthetic How Life Got Made, cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. The first book-length ethnographic study of this discipline, Synthetic documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Roosth traces this new science from its origins at MIT to start-ups, laboratories, conferences, and hackers’ garages across the United States—even to contemporary efforts to resurrect extinct species. Her careful research reveals that rather than opening up a limitless new field, these biologists’ own experimental tactics circularly determine the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon. Exploring the life sciences emblematic of our time, Synthetic tells the origin story of the astonishing claim that biological making fosters biological knowing.
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"A Brief but enlightening overview of brave new world of Biology fills in the gap of what has transpired since earlier work by George Church titled Regenesis !"
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- Roosth's poetic and thought-provoking writing about the ever-expanding realm of synthetic biology brings our moment in this story clearly into focus. Her personal experiences at MIT, studying bioengineering pioneers, and with the founders at Ginkgo BioWorks, give unique insight to the early ethos and the changing perspectives on what makes life. Her observations of corporate interests and DIY hackers round out this fascinating study of the launching point for one of humanity's most transformative endeavors.
- A fascinating deep-dive into the past, present, and future of Synthetic Biology. Prepare to be enamored by the potential to change life as we know it, powered by the engines of synthetic biology and next-gen genome sequencing.
- A Brief but enlightening overview of brave new world of Biology fills in the gap of what has transpired since earlier work by George Church titled Regenesis !
