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Review
. 2018 Sep;36(9):869-871.
doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.05.003. Epub 2018 Jun 4.

Time to Get Serious about Measurement in Synthetic Biology

Jacob Beal  1 , Traci Haddock-Angelli  2 , Natalie Farny  3 , Randy Rettberg  2
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Time to Get Serious about Measurement in Synthetic Biology

Jacob Beal et al. Trends Biotechnol. 2018 Sep.

Abstract

For synthetic biology to mature, composition of devices into functional systems must become routine. This requires widespread adoption of comparable and replicable units of measurement. Interlaboratory studies organized through the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition show that fluorescence can be calibrated with simple, low-cost protocols, so fluorescence should no longer be published without units.

Keywords: engineering; fluorescence; measurement; synthetic biology.

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