Last year, students from eight schools in the United States and Canada participated in a highly successful online conference to publish original…
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From the community Help students learn about scientific writing by participating in the online BioTreks conference
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Social Sciences Can a new model help governance keep up with synthetic biology?
Synthetic biology is moving at a rapid pace, and regulations will need to keep up to allow useful technologies to hit the…
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Synthetic Biology Extreme makeover yeast edition: de novo synthesis of five chromosomes
– What I cannot create, I do not understand. This sentence taken from Richard Feynman’s board at the time of his death…
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Synthetic Biology Synbio for bioremediation: fighting plastic pollution
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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Synthetic Biology Synthetic biology to help colonize Mars
Shannon Nangle finished her PhD ready to take on a new challenge and set her sights on research to help make Mars colonization…
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Interview Antha: a platform for engineering biology
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 Reactions to CRISPR patent decision
This week the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board decided that there is “no interference in fact” between the patent application of Jennifer Doudna…
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From the community AURATOR: a growing archive of personal diaries about synbio
Author of the article: Britt Wray Have you ever wondered what kinds of questions other synthetic biologists ask themselves when they lie…
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biosecurity Synbio and Biosecurity
By guest author Devang Mehta The world in 1918 was emerging from under the pall of a World War that had claimed…
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Interview Interview with Christina Agapakis, Creative Director of Ginkgo Bioworks
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA As a synthetic biology enthusiast, I am fascinated by the power of the…
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From the community Activation and repression of transcription factors via a synthetic construct in Arabidopsis thaliana
Author of the article: Cameron Tout of Legume laboratory Being able to turn genes on and off as required is a significant goal…
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From the community Rewriting our food supply
How genome editing will revolutionize agriculture and secure our future, if we let it. Author of the article: Devang Mehta Genome editing is…