Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
0000-0002-6828-1000 This is the last PLOS synbio post. Since July 2014, when the dedicated community blog on synthetic biology was launched, till the end of December 2019, PLOS synbio was one of the prominent voices
0000-0002-6828-1000 In the last few years, the bio-community around the world has its own conference. Justice went to the Global Community Bio Summit this October, and is kind enough to share his thoughts on the
0000-0002-6828-1000 by Anastasia Athanasakoglou It is true that, as with all emerging technologies, public sentiment of synthetic biology is a crucial factor that shapes the trajectory of the research field. The attitude of laypeople towards
0000-0002-6828-1000 Open Cell is organizing Biodesign Here Now, a biodesign evene in London 19-22 September. Why Biodesign? The cost of reading and writing DNA has fallen 1 million times in just 20 years. Not since
0000-0002-6828-1000 New York is a global center of life sciences, but, until recently, synthetic biology startups clustered in Boston and San Francisco. I had a chance to talk with John Murray, who runs the Life
0000-0002-6828-1000 Guest post by Jacob Beal, BBN, Synthetic Biology Open Language Consortium How do you represent your genetic designs? Nearly every synthetic biology company is involved in the engineering of new genetic designs. The methods
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
