EDITORIAL ANALYSIS

摘要

It was, I suppose, inevitable that we would reach this point. The fate of Synthetic Biology to crystallise into a fully-fledged discipline was sealed when Watson and Crick famously arranged the aluminium components of their DNA model into a double-helix; a molecular breakthrough which in time allowed us to read the language of nature. As any languages student will attest, you can't learn to read a language without also learning to write it. And so it followed that once we could understand the codified language of DNA we were, of course, going to attempt to use that language to write our own biological sentences.