Whether it was academic leaders, startup entrepreneurs, or seasoned biotechnology veterans speaking, it was hard to avoid thinking of how Silicon Valley loomed…
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Synthetic Biology SynBioBeta SF 2016: What have we learned from Silicon Valley?
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From the community From the Community: GeneMods September Newsreel
This post can be originally found at this link, and is from the Northwestern University synthetic biology club called GeneMods. This is…
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Social Sciences The historical anatomy of synthetic biology by Dominic Berry
What are synthetic biologists doing to plants, and what are plants doing to synthetic biology? This question frames a series of laboratory…
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From the community From the Community: Meet E. colonizer by iGEM Leiden
iGEM Leiden have released a video of their project to build a garden on Mars. To achieve this they will use bacteria to…
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Synthetic Biology Algae as vessels for (photo)synthetic biology by Konstantinos Vavitsas
Algae (a term used to group many photosynthetic organisms into a rather heterologous mash-up) do not have a kind place in the…
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Synthetic Biology Things Are Getting Interesting
by Steven Burgess Under what conditions will cooperation emerge in a world of egoists without central authority?” David Axelrod Alas! my time…
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Synthetic Biology SEED 2016: Synbio Industry Coming of Age
As our third SEED2016 post, I’m focusing on the commercial industry presence at the conference. This year SEED showcased the burgeoning synthetic biology industry…
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Synthetic Biology SEED 2016: What can we do outside of a cell?
When we think of synthetic biology, we often think of engineering a cell to give it some useful function. But SEED 2016 had…
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Synthetic Biology Seven Developments in SynBio: Science, Patents and Ethics | OpenPlant Forum 2016
by Steven Burgess and Cindy Chan How researchers answer questions around innovation, patenting and open access will have a profound impact on the…
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Synthetic Biology SEED 2016: Welcome to Chicago!
Last week over 400 synthetic biologists gathered in Chicago to discuss the latest research in the field. Three and half days of presentations…
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From the community From the Community: Genetically Engineering the Chloroplast Genome | LEGUME LABORATORY
We didn’t realise just how cool the chloroplast is – not only does it orchestrate photosynthesis, one of the most important phenomena…
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Synthetic Biology HYPE-IT by Valencia UPV iGEM2016
Nowadays, the most important challenges to society are providing food, energy and other materials from limited natural resources. Plant Synthetic Biology has…