Synthetic Biology: A Jewish View

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (4):571-580 (2012)
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Abstract

To illustrate dramatically the progress and potential in the field of synthetic biology, one can begin the story with the 2011 winner of the Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award (Youyou 2011). She was an 81-year-old Chinese scientist, Dr. Tu Youyou, who was given an assignment in 1969 by the Chinese government to find a treatment for malaria from among Chinese herbal medicines. She investigated more than 2,000 Chinese herbal preparations, winnowed them down to some 640 possibilities, obtained 380 extracts from about 200 Chinese herbs, and tested them against a mouse model of malaria. She found one extract, of the Artemisia plant, effective in mice, but she could not reproduce the results consistently. So she ..

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