Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
0000-0002-6828-1000 Guest post by Joseph Vogel Twenty-five years of negotiations by Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity over “access to genetic resources” and “benefit sharing” have rendered no fruit, just frustration. A
0000-0002-6828-1000 Written by Fabian Rohden Current discussions on international level, namely the Nagoya Protocol, circle around regulating the access to genetic sequence data. Although the issue is primarily about commercial use, this regulation may have
0000-0002-6828-1000 As the next Hello Tomorrow Global Summit is approaching (taking place on March 14-15, click here for more info on the event), I asked Nadine Bongaerts, Vice President of the organization, to tell us
0000-0002-6828-1000Why we were caught unawares and what we should be doing about this Written by Devang Mehta The first CRISPRed babies have been born in China, and from all the noise of the past few days
0000-0002-6828-1000 Guest post by Ariel Hecht and Marc Salit from the Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology. Synthetic biology will realize its potential as an engineering discipline when we can reproduce, exchange, compare, and build upon
0000-0002-6828-1000 Canada is known for several things: cold weather, Niagara Falls, kind residents, maple syrup… but a new initiative, SynBio Canada, aims to make the country a reference point in Synthetic Biology. Canada is strong
0000-0002-6828-1000 Written by EUSynBioS steering committee members Daniel Bojar, Adam Amara and Clea Lachaux. On April 2010, the Gulf of Mexico turned black. The largest marine oil spill initiated by an explosion of methane
0000-0002-6828-1000 written by Thomas Clements CRISPR has been hailed as one of the most promising gene editing technologies and promises to revolutionize precision medicine and eradicate genetic diseases. However, the technique is not perfect and
0000-0003-0319-5416Guest post by Markus Schmidt In 2010 scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced the creation of the first bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome (1). The so-called “synthetic” cell was
0000-0002-6828-1000By Konstantinos Vavitsas and Jestin George Synthetic biology as we commonly know it is often described in its scientifically specific context, or in the context of its effects on society and the environment. However, another
