Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
https://orcid.org/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
https://orcid.org/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
https://orcid.org/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
https://orcid.org/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
https://orcid.org/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
Guest blog post by Dr. Eric van der Helm Last month, the SB7.0 conference attracted around 800 synthetic biology experts from all around the world to Singapore. I was attending as part of the SB7.0
Guest post by Devang Mehta This September, as part of their annual symposium, EUSynBioS will hold an Open Discussion on the topic, “Synthetic Biology and Environmental Engineering”, at the National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain. They will host
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
By former Community Editor Steven Burgess ‘It’s like instant noodles – just add water’ exclaims Dr. Keith Pardee, now an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He is describing a small black object developed
