There are times when I really wish I were born an invertebrate paleontologist. For many of them*, a few kilograms of rock…
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PLOS ONE Things That Make a Vertebrate Paleontologist Weep with JoyRead more
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post How to Build a Culture of Bio-SecurityRead more
By Jean Peccoud I think that a big part of the problem is that security in relation to synthetic biology has been…
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post Can We Regulate Gene Editing Without Killing It?Read more
If there was really any hope that the new gene-editing techniques would be accepted as benign by anti-GMO activists, it has vanished…
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post Will Latest CRISPR Uses be Game Changers in the GM Debate?Read more
By Tabitha M. Powledge Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the…
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post Community effort leads to SBOL, a standard data format for synthetic biologyRead more
By Michal Galdzicki and Herbert Sauro In a perspective published by Nature Biotechnology, a group of 32 authors affiliated with 19 institutions…
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News Welcome to Your Community SiteRead more
Welcome to our new community for current and prospective PLOS authors who work in any of the disciplines that intersect in the emerging…
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post Synthetic Biologist Dr. Jean Peccoud introduces a major rejuvenation of the PLOS Synthetic Biology Collection and calls on the community to lead the direction of the next update.Read more
Since we launched the Synthetic Biology Collection in 2012, PLOS journals have seen a steady submission of new papers in the field…
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post The Billion Cell Construct: Will Three-Dimensional Printing Get Us There?Read more
An essay in PLOS Biology by Jordan S. Miller Published: June 17, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001882 Introduction In the 1960s field known as…
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post Weekly Synbio Community Author Q&A: Drew Endy on Design for LifeRead more
An interview by Johanna Kieniewicz Synthetic biology reworks, remixes and repurposes the stuff of life. Its creative potential is nearly limitless and if…
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post How to Feed the World? Synthetic Biologists and Sustainable AgricultureRead more
Because the work of synthetic biologists is likely to underpin science’s contribution to future sustainability in agriculture, we’re pleased to put…
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post Welcome to the PLOS Synthetic Biology Community: Why a Community Site? How Do I Get Involved?Read more
Thank you for visiting this new new online gathering place for current and prospective authors working in a dynamic and still emerging…
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post Moving Beyond the GM Debate, a Perspective from Ottoline LeyserRead more
In this Perspective, Ottoline Leyser calls for the public to move on from the common logical fallacy that anything natural is…