Summary: Synthetic Biology is the design and construction of NEW biological parts, devices, and systems, and the RE-DESIGN of existing, natural biological systems for supposedly useful purposes. It is a field dedicated to understanding and re-engineering the basic building blocks of life ,... how to cut and paste short DNA sequences from one organism (everything from bacteria to humans) into another. If genes are chemical compounds, then they can be manipulated just like other chemical compounds can be manipulated.
