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Synthetic biology provides a new paradigm for life science research (“build to learn”) and opens the future journey of biotechnology (“build to use”). Here, we discuss advances of various principles and technologies in the mainstream of the enabling technology of synthetic biology, including synthesis and assembly of a genome, DNA storage, gene editing, molecular evolution and de novo design of function proteins, cell and gene circuit engineering, cell-free synthetic biology, artificial intelligence (AI)-aided synthetic biology, as well as biofoundries. We also introduce the concept of quantitative synthetic biology, which is guiding synthetic biology towards increased accuracy and predictability or the real rational design. We conclude that synthetic biology will establish its disciplinary system with the iterative development of enabling technologies and the maturity of the core theory.
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This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB29050100, XDB29050500, XDA24020102) to X.E. Zhang, C. Liu and C. Gao, respectively; the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31725002, 31861143017, 32022044, 62050152 and 32071428) to J. Dai, Y. Yuan, C. You, and X. Wang, respectively; the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFA0907700, 2018YFA0901600, 2019YFA09004500) to Y. Feng and P. Wei. We thank Ms Min Li of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences for her assistance in preparation of the manuscript.
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Zhang, XE., Liu, C., Dai, J. et al. Enabling technology and core theory of synthetic biology. Sci. China Life Sci. 66, 1742–1785 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2214-2
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