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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/swfdjt/synthetic_biology) has announced the addition of the "Synthetic Biology Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Growth, Share And Forecast, 2012 - 2018" report to their offering.

The global market for synthetic biology is estimated to grow to $4.5 billion over the year 2015 owing to the developments in fields like biomedicine, biopharmaceutical synthesis, energy and environment, biosecurity, sustainable chemical segment, and biomaterials. Significant investments by major companies and emergence of new players in the market are also expected to boost the growth of this industry.

Synthetic biology is the fastest growing segment of the biotechnology field having number of applications. Synthetic biology provides significant number of near future commercial opportunities. Despite its emerging status, the list of applications is continuously growing. Some of these major applications include chemicals, enzymes, synthetic genes and other DNA parts, pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and chassis microorganisms among others.

Current developments in technologies like DNA synthesis and sequencing, specialty media, and bioinformatics, and the need for renewable feedstock are driving the market for synthetic biology. Rapid developments in this field are creating unique market opportunities and contributing to the growth of this field.

Synthetic biology is gaining tremendous recognition as a transformative technology as it has the ability to address food storage and security issues as well as handle other threats like climate change, energy shortage, and water deficits.

This report highlights the industry with the following points:

- Definition, estimates & forecast of synthetic biology product market from 2010 to 2017

- Analysis of product segments for synthetic biology product market with historical data and forecast

- Trends and forecast for four geographic markets, namely North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the RoW regions based on segments of synthetic biology product market

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Research and Markets: Synthetic Biology Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Growth, Share And Forecast, 2012 - 2018