Research
Research
Synthetic biology is already making an impact in many areas.
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The full potential of Synthetic biology will not be realised until many research challenges have been met. Synthetic biology research can be split broadly into three categories:
- new approaches, technologies and tools
- the application of synthetic biology
- the ethical, legal and social implications of synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is a developing field. We're active in all three of these categories.
Our research themes
We've established 10 themes that underpin Synthetic Biology research at Newcastle:
Research output
The groups in the Centre are involved in a range of projects. These are funded by a number of major research funders.
Our researchers produce software and data repository resources.
We encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. Our Research Seminars are a regular series of talks by Principal Investigators. They showcase current research and generate new ideas.