Table 1 Potential health applications of synthetic biology
From: Challenges for the European governance of synthetic biology for human health
Types of application | Example |
|---|---|
New pharmaceutical production processes | Synthesis of natural bioactive compounds (Neumann and Neumann-Staublitz [2010]), such as artemisinin (Chang and Keasling [2006]; Kizer et al.[2008]; Newman et al.[2006]; Ro et al.[2006]) |
New kinds of therapeutic products | Engineered viruses and bacteria (Lu and Collins [2009]; Forbes [2010]) |
New kinds of diagnostic products | Biosensors or improved immunoassay (Burbelo et al., [2010]) |
New forms of targeted delivery | Bacteria engineered to invade cancer cells (Anderson et al. [2006]) |
Development of pharmaceutical products | Synthetically attenuated virus for new vaccines (Coleman et al.[2008]) |