Advances in the field of biotechnology and synthetic biology are providing tremendous promise with respect to new ways to combat disease…
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biosecurity Controlling Biosafety and Biosecurity Threats, an interview with Michael Imperiale
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biosecurity Biosecurity: Do synthetic biologists need a licence to operate?
A recent article in New York Times about DIY biology and biohacking sparked a vigorous discussion about biosecurity and regulation of…
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biosecurity National academies’s initial report on biodefense & synbio
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are working to develop a report on security concerns around synthetic biology. The committee recently…
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biosecurity Biosecurity and synthetic biology: it is time to get serious
Guest blog post by Dr. Eric van der Helm Last month, the SB7.0 conference attracted around 800 synthetic biology experts from all…
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biosecurity Geoengineering and Synthetic Biology
Guest post by Devang Mehta This September, as part of their annual symposium, EUSynBioS will hold an Open Discussion on the topic, “Synthetic Biology…
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biosecurity Synbio and Biosecurity
By guest author Devang Mehta The world in 1918 was emerging from under the pall of a World War that had claimed…
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biosecurity Regulating the Use of Genetic Sequence Data
By Steven Burgess and Dominic Berry Last month, researchers from the Universität Marburg reported mixing 12 enzymes from three spheres of life…
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biosecurity BIOFABRICATE: Biotech and Synbio for the Production of New Sustainable Materials
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA I have always looked at multidisciplinarity as the key to technological advancement. I…
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biosecurity Midsummer Madness: A News Roundup of Synbio Moonshoots
“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” Shakespeare, Twelfth Night In the fast moving field of synthetic biology, things have been speeding up over the…
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biosecurity Synthetic Biology’s Defence Dollars: Signals and Perceptions by Dr. Filippa Lentzos
by Dr. Filippa Lentzos, King’s College London Synthetic biology is swimming in defense dollars. The most recent figures available on US trends in…