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Outline
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Biological Design: “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”:
Limitless Diversity From Combinatorial Assemblies of Limited Building Blocks
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What’s Converging?
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What’s Converging?
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Why Biodesign?
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Comprehending Biological Design:
The Design of Complex, Adaptive Networks
of Increasingly Higher Structural Order
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Thin-Film Fabrication of Individually-Addressable Microelectrode Arrays
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Directed Molecular Assembly
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Design of Bioactive Materials
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Synthetic Biology: Engineering
Novel Organisms with Novel Functions
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Analysis of Complex, Multiplex Signals
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Mapping the Molecular Signatures of Disease
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The Future Trajectory of Biotechnology
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Commensal Microorganisms, Viruses
and Parasites as Sensors and Taggants
  • engineered tag insertion into carrier organism
    • constitutive or induced expression of tag
    • activatable tags
  • standoff detection range unknown
    • magnetic, metallic, spectral tags
  • induction of biomarkers by exposure as evidence of presence in red location
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Design of Biomimetic Molecular Photovoltaics by
Directed Molecular Assembly on DNA Scaffolds
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Synthetic Biology: Engineering
Novel Organisms with Novel Functions
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Controversy and Divisiveness of New Technologies
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