Bottom-Up Biology: Harnessing Engineering to Understand Nature

Publication date: 26 September 2016
Source:Developmental Cell, Volume 38, Issue 6
Author(s): Daniel A. Fletcher
Engineering as a field has fundamentally different goals than biology, but the perspective that engineers take—that systems can be designed and built—is helping to advance biological sciences by motivating and equipping efforts to construct biological systems from the bottom up.

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Engineering as a field has fundamentally different goals than biology, but the perspective that engineers take—that systems can be designed and built—is helping to advance biological sciences by motivating and equipping efforts to construct biological systems from the bottom up.


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