Lessons on Synthetic Bioarchitectures, Interaction of Living Matter with Synthetic Structural Analogues

This textbook targets defined examples of synthetic approaches in heading from molecular biology towards artificial cells. It specifically focuses on the science of joining artificial, synthetic material with living matters. This textbook is based on a lecture of the same title, held by the authors at the University of Vienna.The book shows and describes what currently is possibly in synthetic biology in terms of view of creating synthetic biological structures and what actually not. The reader gains insight into the world of synthetic biology from the beginning till today. The author, an renowned expert in the field, describes existing examples and inherent prerequisites to be fulfilled on the molecular level.

Furthermore, in a descriptive way, the book also treats ethical risk factors and depicts their current potential threat, whether high or low; in addition the book shows what to is be expected from synthetic biology - from the point of view of the author - in future. It motivates the reader to think of synthetic biology in a variety of contexts.

The book is written for Master- and PhD students in synthetic biology and Bioengineering and may also be of interest to research scientists from other disciplines that wish to learn more about the state-of-the-art of synthetic biology and its perspective.