Iñigo de Miguel Beriain
Carlos María Romeo Casabona
Editors

2014

A Challenge to the Current IP Framework?

Synthetic biology is a relatively new field of scientific endeavour, emerging over the past 10 years. Rather than seeking to understand living organisms, researchers in synthetic biology aim to design and build entirely new living systems at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organism level. Synthetic biology utilises tools and mechanisms from many scientific disciplines, notably engineering, genetics and biochemistry, but also nanotechnology, physics and computational modelling.