Bottom-Up Biology: Harnessing Engineering to Understand Nature

Daniel A Fletcher

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2016.09.009

Bottom-Up Biology: Harnessing Engineering to Understand Nature

Dev Cell. 2016 Sep 26;38(6):587-9. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.09.009.

Author

Daniel A Fletcher¹

Affiliation

¹ Bioengineering Department and Biophysics Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: fletch@berkeley.edu.

Abstract

Engineering as a field has fundamentally different goals than biology, but the perspective that engineers take-that systems can be designed and built-is helping to advance biological sciences by motivating and equipping efforts to construct biological systems from the bottom up.

MeSH terms

Bioengineering / trends*
Genetic Engineering*
Models, Biological
Systems Biology / trends*

Abstract

MeSH terms

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