New Functionalities for Biological Systems
Abstract
Leveraging advances in synthetic biology and bioengineering, this program seeks to investigate novel approaches to identify and transfer biological functions into an organism or between organisms. Traditional research in this field has been limited to microbial systems and focused on imparting capabilities from one biological system to another. Instead, this work will investigate methods to biologically encode new functionalities in cell-free, multicellular, and/or multi-organism systems, using innovations from related areas of microbiology as well as micro- and nanotechnology. New capabilities within biological systems will enable advances in a variety of national security application areas.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 07892814bb316918e111085b0d7ee364