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Synthetic Biology (SynBio) was defined by ERASynBio as " the engineering of biology: the deliberate (re)design and construction of novel biological and biologically based parts, devices and systems to perform new functions for useful purposes, that draws on principles elucidated from biology and engineering."
Its industrial applications lie in the fields of environment, healthcare, materials and energy.
The Institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology (iSSB) belongs to the UMR 8030, a mixed research unit of University of Évry-Val-d'Essonne, University Paris-Saclay, CEA and CNRS. It is supported by Genopole.
It includes four teams active in the fields of xeno-nucleic acids and synthetic genomics, and of synthetic biochemical circuits. Their acronyms are Xenome, MEGA, Synth-Bio and Bio-Retrosynth.
iSSB represents the academic core of a local SynBio "ecosystem" comprising in addition a master degree (mSSB), an iGEM team (iGEM Evry), an annual School (aSSB), a few small companies, and a technological platform (abSYNTH).
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The iGEM 2017 team "Evry-Paris Saclay" wants to help fighting against obesity and diabetes. To follow their work, please 
Symposium BioSynSys 2017. 3rd symposium of the 
Based on publications in synthetic biology, an 
iSSB is pleased to announce the creation of the spin-off Inovactis, founded by two former mSSB students. 