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The expression “synthetic biology” appeared for the first time in a couple of publications by the French biologist Stephane Leduc, respectively “Théorie physico-chimique de la vie et générations spontanées”, published in 1910, and “La Biologie Synthétique”, published 2 years later. Leduc attributed the afore-mentioned expression to researches into the synthesis of life from inanimate matter, by emphatically asking why the synthesis of a cell is considered less admissible than that of a molecule. Such statements did not find interest and approval among his contemporary colleagues.
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Carrà, S. (2018). Synthetic Biology at Work. In: Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95459-2_9
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