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Thomas A Dixon1, Thomas C Williams2,3, Isak S Pretorius4.
Abstract
The practices of synthetic biology are being integrated into 'multiscale' designs enabling two-way communication across organic and inorganic information substrates in biological, digital and cyber-physical system integrations. Novel applications of 'bio-informational' engineering will arise in environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, precision medicine and next-generation biomanufacturing. Potential developments include sentinel plants for environmental monitoring and autonomous bioreactors that respond to biosensor signaling. As bio-informational understanding progresses, both natural and engineered biological systems will need to be reimagined as cyber-physical architectures. We propose that a multiple length scale taxonomy will assist in rationalizing and enabling this transformative development in engineering biology.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33452260 PMCID: PMC7810845 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20764-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Commun ISSN: 2041-1723 Impact factor: 14.919