It’s Open Access Week! Openness is a very important aspect of synthetic biology, but is the community doing enough to embrace…
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Synthetic Biology Open science has roots in the synthetic biology community, but we can do betterRead more
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Synthetic Biology GM mosquitoes for insect population control: when speculative conclusions meet hyped journalismRead more
A recent study published in Scientific Reports studied the aftermath of an insect population control experiment in Brazil. The study’s conclusions…
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Synthetic Biology Building a CO2-concentrating mechanismRead more
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 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 CRISPR Human Babies: Too soon, not neverRead more
Guest post by Thomas Clements Jiankui He made waves in November 2018 when he announced he had successfully genetically modified human twin…
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Synthetic Biology Controlling translational resource allocationRead more
Guest post by Alexander Darlington We often design and build genetic devices in isolation and then bring the plasmids encoding them…
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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 story of synthetic biology is still being written—don’t leave the women out this timeRead more
By Christina Agapakis. This post originally appeared in SynBioBeta website and is reposted with permision. Read the original story here. Nestled…
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Synthetic Biology Synthetic biology solutions for Mars colonizationRead more
Post first posted in Synthetic Biology Australasia website (read the original here), written by Jestin George Even though plans to colonise…
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Synthetic Biology Plant genetic editing – a green synbio future?Read more
By Steven Burgess and Iulia Gherman Synthetic biology certainly includes plants, but the field of plant synthetic biology is less developed…
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Synthetic Biology GP-write has big goals for synthetic genomesRead more
We continue to improve our ability to read, write, and edit DNA on larger and larger scales. GP-write wants to gather and…
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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…