合成生物学研究进展及应用前景

摘要

The creation of a bacterial cell controlled by chemical synthesized gene makes a new frontier in synthetic biology. This paper reviewed the important events in synthetic biology studies and predicted the great potentiality of synthetic biology in environmental protection, energy resources development and drug discovery, and the challenges of scientific and technological barriers were discussed.%化学合成基因组控制的细菌细胞的诞生,使合成生物学这一新兴学科再次引起了人们的高度关注.简要介绍了合成生物学的概念和主要研究进展,展望了合成生物学在环境治理、能源开发、人类疾病治疗等方面的巨大潜力,同时指出其面临的科学技术难题以及在生物安全等方面的问题.