Researchers believe that DNA – the molecule that stores information about life – could one day be used as a type…
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Synthetic Biology Custom-built DNA could be used as a sensor probe
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From the community Making the World Go Round: Building a Circular Bioeconomy with Synthetic Biology
Written by EUSynBioS steering committee members Daniel Bojar, Adam Amara and Clea Lachaux. On April 2010, the Gulf of Mexico…
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Synthetic Biology Promoters, initiators of transcription and drivers of synthetic biology
Promoter characterisation and engineering is a common and arguably useful component of many synthetic biology studies. This post covers some recent…
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Synthetic Biology Synthetic biology approaches to improving immunotherapy
The AACR 2018 Meeting in Chicago is ending today and has featured the major new results in cancer treatment and immunotherapy treatments…
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From the community Curing the world with CRISPR: Where we are at and where we ’re headed
written by Thomas Clements CRISPR has been hailed as one of the most promising gene editing technologies and promises to revolutionize…
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Synthetic Biology The role of synthetic biology as a basic research facilitator
Last December, a very interesting journal article was published in Science about the reconstitution of functional plant RuBisCo in E. coli…
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Synthetic Biology Introducing myself as a your new PLOS Synbio Community Editor
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to…
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From the community From Synthetic Genomes to Designer Vaccines
Guest post by Markus Schmidt In 2010 scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced the creation of the first bacterial…
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Synthetic Biology Engineered bacteria to detect gut inflammation
I wrote about engineered probiotics at the beginning of 2017, and the field continued throughout 2017 with more papers and startup news…
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Synthetic Biology Time to Say Goodbye: PLOS Synbio Seeks New Community Editor
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA It looks like a whole year has passed and I am afraid it…
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From the community Meeting report: Synthetic Biology Australasia Conference
By Konstantinos Vavitsas and Jestin George Synthetic biology as we commonly know it is often described in its scientifically specific context, or…
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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…