George Attard on Synthetic Biology

Professor George Attard (Chemistry, Southampton University), author of two recent J. R. Soc. Interface papers*, is interviewed by Sheffield University's Professor Noel Sharkey. He pours cold water on some of the fears associated with Synthetic Biology and provides his own views on the nature and goals of the subject.

*Integrative feedback and robustness in a lipid biosynthetic network
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Testing the hypothesis that amphiphilic antineoplastic lipid analogues act through reduction of membrane curvature elastic stress