Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology
C|Net | at | by Mike
The emerging field of synthetic biology--creating organisms in the lab that act like those found in nature--received a big boost Monday in the form of a $42.5 million grant from the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant--which will be shared by the University of California at Berkeley, the Institute for OneWorld Health, and Albany, Calif.-based upstart Amyris Biotechnologies--will help refine a process for producing the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the lab with genetically engineered microbes.