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0000-0002-6828-1000 It’s Open Access Week! Openness is a very important aspect of synthetic biology, but is the community doing enough to embrace and expand the concept? An article from John Ioannidis, published in 2005,
0000-0002-6828-1000 A recent study published in Scientific Reports studied the aftermath of an insect population control experiment in Brazil. The study’s conclusions have attracted significant attention from news outlets, but also significant criticism. If
0000-0002-6828-1000 Guest post by Steven Burgess Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, York, Cambridge and Princeton have demonstrated a key step towards reconstructing a CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) used by green algae in plants. They
0000-0002-6828-1000 A recent protocol published and visualized at the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) describes how to express proteins in a lysate of Vibrio natriegens cells. The work is simple, but does it signify a
0000-0002-6828-1000Guest post by Thomas Clements Jiankui He made waves in November 2018 when he announced he had successfully genetically modified human twin girls using CRISPR. How did he do it? What are the ethical concerns?
0000-0002-6828-1000 Guest post by Alexander Darlington We often design and build genetic devices in isolation and then bring the plasmids encoding them together in one cell; most of the time this results in an unexpected
0000-0002-6828-1000 Written by Navaneeth Mohan A form of Autism—fragile X syndrome (FXS)—is caused by a repeating genetic sequence in the human brain. This prompted scientists to consider using CRISPR-Cas9, a molecular scissor, to prune the
0000-0002-6828-1000 By Christina Agapakis. This post originally appeared in SynBioBeta website and is reposted with permision. Read the original story here. Nestled back from the suburban street about two miles away from Stanford’s campus is
0000-0002-6828-1000 Post first posted in Synthetic Biology Australasia website (read the original here), written by Jestin George Even though plans to colonise Mars are progressing rapidly, it is very hard to actually comprehend what a
0000-0002-6828-1000 By Steven Burgess and Iulia Gherman Synthetic biology certainly includes plants, but the field of plant synthetic biology is less developed compared to model heterotrophs or mammalian applications. But plants are important, too important
