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Time to Get Serious about Measurement in Synthetic Biology
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Time to Get Serious about Measurement in Synthetic Biology

Jacob Beal, Traci Haddock-Angelli, Natalie Farny and Randy Rettberg
Trends in biotechnology (Regular ed.), Vol.36(9), pp.869-871
09/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.05.003
PMID: 29880229

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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.
engineering fluorescence measurement synthetic biology

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