This is the last PLOS synbio post. Since July 2014, when the dedicated community blog on synthetic biology was launched, till…
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From the community PLOS synbio says farewellRead more
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From the community Reflections on Global Community Biology of the Future: It is Open, Diverse, and ThrivingRead more
In the last few years, the bio-community around the world has its own conference. Justice went to the Global Community Bio…
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From the community From the community: Words, images and gender perspectives as gauges of public perception of Synthetic BiologyRead more
by Anastasia Athanasakoglou It is true that, as with all emerging technologies, public sentiment of synthetic biology is a crucial factor…
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From the community Biodesign Here Now brings biology and manufacturing togetherRead more
Open Cell is organizing Biodesign Here Now, a biodesign evene in London 19-22 September. Why Biodesign? The cost of reading and…
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From the community Life Sciences NYC, a meeting spot for academics and entrepreneursRead more
New York is a global center of life sciences, but, until recently, synthetic biology startups clustered in Boston and San Francisco…
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From the community Beyond GenBank and FASTA: Addressing the Representational Needs of Industrial SynBioRead more
Guest post by Jacob Beal, BBN, Synthetic Biology Open Language Consortium How do you represent your genetic designs? Nearly every synthetic…
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From the community Wind Blowin’ in the [Brackets]: Tribute to the Convention on Biological DiversityRead more
Guest post by Joseph Vogel Twenty-five years of negotiations by Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity over “access…
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From the community Open access under attack – how international regulation collides with the open use of genetic sequence dataRead more
Written by Fabian Rohden Current discussions on international level, namely the Nagoya Protocol, circle around regulating the access to genetic sequence…
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From the community Hello Tomorrow, an innovation facilitator that makes its first strides in synthetic biologyRead more
As the next Hello Tomorrow Global Summit is approaching (taking place on March 14-15, click here for more info on the…
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From the community Opinion: The first CRISPRed babies are here, what’s next?Read more
Why we were caught unawares and what we should be doing about this Written by Devang Mehta The first CRISPRed babies have been…
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From the community A new standard for synthetic biology: Minimum Information Standard for Engineered Organism Experiments (MIEO)Read more
Guest post by Ariel Hecht and Marc Salit from the Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology. Synthetic biology will realize its potential…
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From the community A new synbio initiative: interview with the Synbio Canada steering committeeRead more
Canada is known for several things: cold weather, Niagara Falls, kind residents, maple syrup… but a new initiative, SynBio Canada, aims…