Engineering Biology Problems Book (2021, Obninsk Edition)

Egineering Biology Problems Book contains more than 200 physical, design and biomedical
problems, the solution of which with the help of biological tools may one day benefit
humanity. The collection consists of seven chapters, divided by applications of biological
technologies to various aspects of modern and promising economic activity: improving the
quality and prolonging life, transforming nature and improving human nature.
The topic of the tasks is devoted to methods of modification of biological objects and options
for the application of engineering biosystems for solving medical, industrial, agro-industrial,
ethical and other problems. The solution of the proposed tasks can be based on the original
use of modern methods of molecular and cellular biology, genome editing systems, synthetic
biology, and other methods.
For a significant number of tasks, answer options have been proposed, however, considerable
scope has been left for the flight of thought of biological creativity. The collection is designed
for students with an engineering mindset who want to find themselves in the design of
supersystems in the future a new industry of biotechnological excellence.
The idea of such a collaboration appeared spontaneously. Engineering Biology Problems
Book was written by Ilya Klabukov in 2019. This book is a collection of problems in
engineering biology.
In the middle of the 20th century, the Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, presented a series of
books “Feynman Lectures on Physics". They were simple, but very creatively formulated the
basic postulates and problems of physics. We believe that engineering biology is the new
physics of the 21st century. There are many unresolved problems in it, and we are sure that
they can be solved only through international cooperation.
Driven by these ideas, we tried to gather teams to get at least a little closer to this goal.
This version of the book is the result of the interaction of a large number of people and teams.
The following teams participated in this collaboration: MEPhI, MIPT_MSU, Siberia,
Phystech_Moscow, LMSU, Moscow_City, CAU_China, Stockholm.
Special thanks to:
Ilya Klabukov as the creator of this idea and the I version of the Book
Dmitrii Vladimirtsev, Anastasia Nikolaeva, Mingyang Li, Boshuang Wang, Elsa Arksand for
their great contribution to the II version of the Book.
Olesya Galanova and Rimma Shatalova for decoration and design of the Book
And teams MEPhI, MIPT_MSU, Siberia, Phystech_Moscow, LMSU, Moscow_City for the
translation of the Engineering Biology Problems Book in English.