{"id":30314,"date":"2016-09-19T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/researchers-address-the-importance-of-measurement-in-synthetic-biology"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:39:46","slug":"researchers-address-the-importance-of-measurement-in-synthetic-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/researchers-address-the-importance-of-measurement-in-synthetic-biology","title":{"rendered":"Researchers address the importance of measurement in synthetic biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-address-the-importance-of-measurement-in-synthetic-biology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Michael Adeogun and Dr Max Ryadnov from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have written an expert view for Bio-Based World News on the importance of measurement science in synthetic biology, highlighting the vital work that NPL has already undertaken in this field.<\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biology is a growing field which seeks to develop solutions to major global challenges, such as the generation of sustainable and affordable materials and chemicals, and the use of bio-engineered organisms as products. The UK aims to achieve a \u00a310bn market in synthetic biology by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Since the publication of the government-commissioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcuk.ac.uk\/publications\/reports\/syntheticbiologyroadmap\/\">Synthetic Biology Roadmap in 2012<\/a>, the UK has become the second largest investor in synthetic biology, having developed a national network of research centres, doctoral training programmes and knowledge facilities to drive growth in the commercial sector.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-09-importance-synthetic-biology.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;09-importance-synthetic-biology.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Michael Adeogun and Dr Max Ryadnov from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have written an expert view for Bio-Based World News on the importance of measurement science in synthetic biology, highlighting the vital work that NPL has already undertaken in this field. Synthetic biology is a growing field which seeks to develop solutions to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49852,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30314\/revisions\/49852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}