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0000-0003-0319-5416“Color on the screen is not only more natural than black-and-white, it is more stimulating, more exciting, more dramatic.” said Broadway and color designer Robert Edmond Jones. The same may be said of the leap
0000-0003-0319-5416The Synbio Newsreel is guest contributed by Isaac Larkin from the Northwestern University synthetic biology club called GeneMods. This post can be originally found as part of their monthly SynBio Newsreel and you can follow them at @Genemods. Synbio
0000-0003-0319-5416Food Evolution aims to take a look at the science underlying the heated rhetoric of the GMO debate. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, narrator Neil deGrasse Tyson and on-camera experts walk through the major claims and key
0000-0003-0319-5416From 2008 to 2014 the United States invested around $820 million in synthetic biology research. About 0.07% as much money went to synthetic biology projects through crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or Experiment.com. Of those crowdfunded
0000-0003-0319-5416The Synbio Newsreel is guest contributed by Isaac Larkin from the Northwestern University synthetic biology club called GeneMods. This post can be originally found as part of their monthly SynBio Newsreel and you can follow them at @Genemods. Synbio
0000-0003-0319-5416I was recently involved in a collaboration between the Zhang and Collins labs at MIT to use the RNA-targeting CRISPR protein Cas13a/C2c2 to detect either DNA or RNA from pathogens. By combining the use of Cas13a/C2c2 as
Founded in 2004, Evolva is one of the first synthetic biology companies ever created, and it is a beautiful example of a successful business in our field. Evolva employs more than 175 people around the
0000-0003-0319-5416Last year, students from eight schools in the United States and Canada participated in a highly successful online conference to publish original synthetic biology papers and artwork in BioTreks, a peer reviewed high school synthetic
0000-0003-0319-5416Synthetic biology is moving at a rapid pace, and regulations will need to keep up to allow useful technologies to hit the market while maintaining a high standard of safety. Since most policymakers are not experts
0000-0002-6828-1000– What I cannot create, I do not understand. This sentence taken from Richard Feynman’s board at the time of his death essentially captures, if applied to a biological frame, the holy grail of synthetic
