In April, iGEM announced two major changes in this year’s competition: teams will no longer need to physically submit their parts…
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News Type II enzymes and no part shipment in iGEM 2019
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News The CRISPR gene-edited babies: a technological breakthrough or a brave new future?
Written by Adam Amara The announcement of the first CRISPR gene-edited babies has sparked a major polemic in the scientific community…
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News The first synbio Nobel Prize
I had the chance to attend a presentation from Frances Arnold last June, at the Metabolic Engineering 12 conference in Munich…
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Neuroscience On Intelligence (by Naureen Ghani)
“The brain is wider than the sky— For put them side by side— The one the other will contain” —Emily Dickinson…
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Neuroscience Seeing through the brain (by Chinmaya Sadangi)
The brain is a complex and mysterious organ, which performs many functions and the proper functioning of this precious machine is important…
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Neuroscience When Arts meet Neuroscience… (by Naureen Ghani)
“Why do humans do science? Why do they do art? The things that are least important for our survival are the very…
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Basic Neuroscience PLOS Neuro Community meets face-to-face at #FENS2016 in Copenhagen!
Updated July 6: As FENS draws to a close, we thank everyone who came by our booth for literature, talked with our editors…
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Neuroscience Ischemic stroke therapy – does the gut microbiota hold the key? by Sara Adães
As the world’s population grows older, the burden of stroke continues to increase. Epidemiological data indicates that around 17 million people suffer…
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biosecurity Midsummer Madness: A News Roundup of Synbio Moonshoots
“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” Shakespeare, Twelfth Night In the fast moving field of synthetic biology, things have been speeding up over the…
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Basic Neuroscience Sugar, the addictive enemy hiding in plain sight
Could you image a world without sugar? A life without that spectacular sweet taste in your mouth? Sugar is something that we…
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News News: Imperial opens UK’s first synthetic-biology foundry – E & T Magazine
The UK’s first robotically-automated commercial ‘foundry’ for custom, genome-scale DNA synthesis and sequence validation has opened at Imperial College, London. Source: Imperial…
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News Progress and patents, a CRISPR news roundup
After briefly fading from the media spotlight, CRISPR, the genome-engineering tool that caused widespread consternation at the end of 2015, when a Chinese group…