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Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology

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Kuldell, Natalie
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Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for undergraduate students have shown that the co-development of this emerging discipline and its future practitioners does not undermine learning. Rather it can serve as the lynchpin of a synthetic biology curriculum. Here I describe educational goals uniquely served by synthetic biology teaching, detail ongoing curricula development efforts at MIT, and specify particular aspects of the emerging field that must develop rapidly in order to best train the next generation of synthetic biologists.
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2007-12
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58711
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
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Journal of Biological Engineering
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BioMed Central Ltd
Citation
Journal of Biological Engineering. 2007 Dec 27;1(1):8
Version: Final published version
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1754-1611

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