Sentence examples for engineering organisms from inspiring English sources

It is therefore essential to better understand the mechanisms and interactions of soil engineering organisms regarding soil organic matter stabilisation.

This is something we have been working towards for about a decade now: being able to engineer biology and ultimately build a factory for engineering organisms.

Synthetic biology aims at designing and engineering organisms.

Gene-drive technology involves engineering organisms to boost their chance of passing on a particular trait to their offspring.

The cloning of long DNA segments, especially those containing large gene clusters, is of particular importance to synthetic and chemical biology efforts for engineering organisms.

Engineering organisms for biotechnology applications requires knowledge of their essential genes and associated regulatory networks.

Soil-engineering organisms (earthworms, termites and ants) affect the soil and litter environment indirectly by the accumulation of their biogenic structures (casts, pellets, galleries, crop sheetings nests…).

This is especially important for engineering whole organisms because some of the engineered properties might be active only under special conditions – they might be 'de-tuned' under conditions when there is cost for their production and maintenance but no survival benefit.

In the mid-1990s, researchers began marking specific cells in lab animals by genetically engineering the organisms to incorporate fluorescent proteins (above) found in marine species.

Weiss and his comrades at the BioBricks Foundation want to strip out all the noise in biology and turn it into pure engineering, where organisms can be treated like machines and their inner workings are component parts.

She said the bacteria E. coli, which can be fatal in some forms and harmless in others, was used in a Critical Art Ensemble production called "GenTerra," which looked at genetic engineering of organisms from the perspective of a fictional corporation.