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Synthetic biology's flywheel
Author(s) -
Danchin Antoine
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2011.253
Subject(s) - flywheel , biology , computational biology , evolutionary biology , engineering , aerospace engineering
Producing drugs and chemicals efficiently from cells remains a major challenge. Synthetic biologists need to invent the equivalents of the crank and flywheel to improve productivity.