Guest post by Steven Burgess Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, York, Cambridge and Princeton have demonstrated a key step…
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Synthetic Biology Building a CO2-concentrating mechanismRead more
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Synthetic Biology Changing the norms: cell-free protein expression in Vibrio natriegensRead more
A recent protocol published and visualized at the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) describes how to express proteins in a lysate…
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Synthetic Biology It’s gold! Nanoparticles delivery of CRISPR in mouse brain.Read more
Written by Navaneeth Mohan A form of Autism—fragile X syndrome (FXS)—is caused by a repeating genetic sequence in the human brain…
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Synthetic Biology The role of synthetic biology as a basic research facilitatorRead more
Last December, a very interesting journal article was published in Science about the reconstitution of functional plant RuBisCo in E. coli…
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Synthetic Biology Engineered bacteria to detect gut inflammationRead more
I wrote about engineered probiotics at the beginning of 2017, and the field continued throughout 2017 with more papers and startup news…
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biosecurity Geoengineering and Synthetic BiologyRead more
Guest post by Devang Mehta This September, as part of their annual symposium, EUSynBioS will hold an Open Discussion on the topic, “Synthetic Biology…
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Interview Directed evolution in synthetic biology: an interview with Professor Frances ArnoldRead more
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA At the beginning of my scientific career, I was captivated by the ability…
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Social Sciences Entangled with Synthetic Yeast: Social Dimensions of the Sc2.0 projectRead more
By guest authors Erika Szymanski and Jane Calvert Whole-genome engineering appears to be moving forward apace. The first synthetic biology effort to…
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Synthetic Biology Synbio for bioremediation: fighting plastic pollutionRead more
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA Plastic pollution: a one-hundred years ‘young’ problem Plastic pollution is one of the major…
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Interview Antha: a platform for engineering biologyRead more
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA If you are a scientist, in particular a biologist, you might be very…
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Synthetic Biology Engineered Probiotics as Living MedicineRead more
Modern medicine has found many ways to use a pill of chemicals to improve human health for people around the world. Drugs are taken…
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Synthetic Biology State of synbio publishingRead more
The field, or at least the widely used term, of synthetic biology (synbio) started nearly two decades ago. As the field has…