Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
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
0000-0003-0319-5416We continue to improve our ability to read, write, and edit DNA on larger and larger scales. GP-write wants to gather and coordinate the global enthusiasm around large-scale genome engineering to bring about some major
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 Researchers believe that DNA – the molecule that stores information about life – could one day be used as a type of sensor, to record information based on its surroundings. Synthetic DNA (not produced
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
