TY - JOUR AU - Muñoz-Miranda, L. A. AU - Higuera-Ciapara, I. AU - Gschaedler-Mathis, A. C. AU - Rodríguez-Zapata, L. C. AU - Pereira-Santana, A. AU - Figueroa Yáñez, L. J. PY - 2018/12/04 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - Brief description of Synthetic Biology and the importance of its relationship with other disciplines JF - Revista Mexicana de Ingenieria Biomedica JA - Rev Mex Ing Biom VL - 40 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.17488/RMIB.40.1.9 UR - http://www.rmib.mx/index.php/rmib/article/view/908 SP - 1-7 AB - <p>Synthetic biology (SynBio) it is considered a very recent discipline. View as a tool serves to design or re-design biolo-gical systems, giving them improved qualities or new qualities. In the SynBio, the design of new biological systems requires very precise molecular tools, such as: a) bioinformatics, b) sequencing NGS (Next Generation Sequencing), assembly and synthesis of DNA c) and CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing. Within the SynBio there are other social profile disciplines which concerned to ethical, legal, philosophical, and economic, and for that reason it is considered a multidiscipline. The SynBio is promoting the development of new (emerging) technologies based on an engineering perspective. In SynBio, DNA is understood in a practical and abstract way as a series of parts that can be assembled in a certain order to obtain the desired products once the functionality of each part is known. The SynBio has given rise to a new conception of the economy worldwide and consequently the term Bioeconomy is already taken very seriously as a new discipline that will transform societies.</p> ER -