Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology

被引：17

作者：

Kuldell N. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] MIT, Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, MA 02139

来源：

Journal of Biological Engineering | / 1卷 / 1期

关键词：

Synthetic Biology; Synthetic Biologist; Biological Circuit; Standard Biological Part; Persuasive Writing;

D O I：

10.1186/1754-1611-1-8

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摘要：

Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for undergraduate students have shown that the co-development of this emerging discipline and its future practitioners does not undermine learning. Rather it can serve as the lynchpin of a synthetic biology curriculum. Here I describe educational goals uniquely served by synthetic biology teaching, detail ongoing curricula development efforts at MIT, and specify particular aspects of the emerging field that must develop rapidly in order to best train the next generation of synthetic biologists. © 2007 Kuldell; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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