Mar 7, 2013 | Publications, Science in Society, Science Policy
European Parliament publishes the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) – Options Brief No 2012-08, about “Making Perfect Life: European Governance Challenges in 21st Century Bio-engineering”. The Assessment was carried out by a number of...
Feb 11, 2013 | Publications, science, Science in Society
Biofaction published an article about the biosafety considerations in the synthetic biology competition iGEM, see: Guan Z, Schmidt M, Pei L, Wei W, Ma K. (2013). Biosafety considerations of synthetic biology in the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)...
Feb 1, 2013 | Publications, science
In collaboration with German, French and US colleagues we co-published an article about minimal life forms, titled: Acevedo-Rocha CG, Fang G, Schmidt M, Ussery DW, Danchin A. 2012. From essential to persistent genes: a functional approach to constructing synthetic...
Jan 11, 2013 | art-science, Publications
Mexican art magazine Fahrenheit° published an extensive article about our Bioart exhibition “synth-ethic”. .
Jan 3, 2013 | Publications, Science Communication, Science in Society
Together with Helge Torgersen, Markus Schmidt published a chapter in the recent ACATECH volume on Communicating Biotechnology with a special focus on synthetic biology.
Nov 10, 2012 | Publications, science
New book publication by Biofaction: Schmidt M. (ed.) 2012: Synthetic Biology: Industrial and Environmental Applications