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Biomimetic Approaches in Synthetic Biology

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Biomimetics is an advanced method to create full or partial replicates in stimulating biological system at macro and nanoscale. There are several inspired innovations that are developed to resolve the biological problems in efficient method. This chapter briefs development of engineering designs for recognition of biological phenomena accelerating the synthetic biology research. In addition, we describe the strategies for finding potential analogies in biological phenomena, including searching functional repertoire across multiple levels of organization, from the molecule to the biosphere. In addition, initial efforts at finding appropriate analogies are documented using an example.

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The authors wish to thank Dr. Prashanth Suravajhala for providing the suggestions, encouragement, and fruitful discussion during preparation of this chapter.

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    Aakanksha Kumar & Harshavardhan Reddy Burri

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Suravajhala, R., Kumar, A., Burri, H.R., Malik, B. (2020). Biomimetic Approaches in Synthetic Biology. In: Singh, V. (eds) Advances in Synthetic Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0081-7_6

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