Modern medicine has found many ways to use a pill of chemicals to improve human health for people around the world. Drugs are taken…
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Synthetic Biology Engineered Probiotics as Living Medicine
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Conferences SynBioBeta: Interview with the CEO, Kate Wildauer
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA It was September 2013 when I first heard of SynBioBeta: the leading community…
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Synthetic Biology 10 Years of PLOS Synbio Publications
The PLOS Synbio Collection organizes the synthetic biology papers from across the PLOS family of journals into nine categories. The collection includes publications going back to…
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From the community Researchers create synthetic cells to isolate genetic circuits | MIT News
Synthetic biology allows scientists to design genetic circuits that can be placed in cells, giving them new functions such as producing drugs…
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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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Synthetic Biology Student teams take on synbio reproducibility problem
Synthetic biology aims to engineer biological cells to perform many different useful functions, but before they can be used commercially or clinically they…
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From the community MicroSynbiotix uses synbio to help fish farming
Fish is an essential component of diets across the world and can provide essential nutrients for healthy diet. As the need for…
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Synthetic Biology Interview with Bill Liao: Co-founder of IndieBio
This blog was written by Daniela Quaglia, PhD, MBA If you are part of the Synthetic Biology community, and you are thinking…
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Synthetic Biology State of synbio publishing
The field, or at least the widely used term, of synthetic biology (synbio) started nearly two decades ago. As the field has…
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From the community Can DNA Hard Drives Solve Our Looming Data Storage Crisis?
The idea of storing digital data in DNA seems like science fiction. At first glance, it might not seem obvious that a…
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From the community Greetings from your new PLOS Synbio Community Editor: an honour to meet you!
How exciting to be writing the first post for the PLOSSynbio blog. I feel very honoured to have been chosen as the…