The original assembly standard developed by MIT researcher Tom Knight laid the groundwork for the notion of mix-and-match biological parts. But technical protocols for assembling DNA are far from the only element of synthetic biology that needs to be standardized for the idea of parts sharing to take off. Once you make a part, you need to specify its characteristics — how strongly it expresses a particular gene, for example — for others to use it.
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