In part 3 of our series on plant synthetic biology, Orlando de Lange (@SeaGreenODL) of The New Leaf blog introduces how synbio approaches…
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Synthetic Biology Why Plants? Part III – Rise of The Plant Machines by Orlando de Lange
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Synthetic Biology From Plough to Pipette – Tools for Crop Development
In part 2 of our plant synthetic biology series we teamed up with Cameron Tout of the Legume Laboratory blog to introduce some of…
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Synthetic Biology “Building with Biology” Synbio Outreach
Recently I got to volunteer again at a “Building with Biology” event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Last year was the…
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Synthetic Biology iGEM blogs: Making Life in Space Easier by CosmoCrops
by CosmoCrops, the University of Copenhagen iGEM team 2016 The Challenge: Space Exploration Ever wondered why humans have not colonized Mars, or…
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Synthetic Biology Why Plants? Part I – Feynman and Flowers
by Steven Burgess We are going to hear a lot about genetic modification of plants over the next year as governments seek…
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Synthetic Biology iGEM Blogs: The DNA Typewriter | Edinburgh iGEM 2016
by Edinburgh iGEM 2016 In 2040, you will not be able to read this sentence. This isn’t because of some sci-fi…
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From the community From the Community: Podcast on adoption of SBOL by ACS Synthetic Biology | Jake Beals Next Step
by Jake Beal Following up on my recent post announcing the official adoption of SBOL by the ACS Synthetic Biology, the journal…
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Synthetic Biology Bill Gates on Biotech & Global Health @ ASM Microbe 2016
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, came to Boston last Thursday to open the ASM Microbe…
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Interview Hack the Planet!
by Steven Burgess Hackathons are ‘hacking’ ‘marathons’, and traditionally bring people together to try and solve a defined problem in the field…
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From the community Synthetic Human Genome, Gene Drives | On Science Blogs
by Tabitha M. Powledge IS HGP-WRITE RIGHT? So one plan is to link together chunks of synthetic DNA, making a researcher-created human…
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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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From the community From the Community: Plant Artificial Chromosomes by LEGUME LABORATORY
by Steven Burgess The synthetic yeast (Sc 2.0) project aims to synthesize a yeast genome bottom-up. This is made possible by the…