What does swarm robotics have to do with synthetic biology, and why does it matter?
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 07:00
in Biology & Nature
Synthetic Biology is a field born from the premise that design and engineering principles can be applied to biological entities. Principles such as encapsulation, modularity and compositional hierarchy pervade much of the field's literature and are seen as its core tenets. Yet when you ask practising synthetic biologists what they do and how they do it, a more complicated picture emerges.