Mar 14, 2023 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
After two years in the making, our new open access book is now available! Markus Schmidt (ed.) Grain & Noise – Artists in Synthetic Biology Labs Constructive Disturbances of Art in Science In our book we present the collaboration between scientists and artists in...
Mar 3, 2023 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Austrian NEWS Magazine published an interview with Markus Schmidt from Biofaction about the future of the human body. The interview covered synthetic life, neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence and was featured on the cover of the weekly edition March 3rd,...
Mar 3, 2023 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
German Tech and Science PM Magazine published an interview with Markus Schmidt from Biofaction about the future of the human body. The interview covered synthetic life, neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence. Read the article here (in German).
Oct 21, 2022 | Events, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction’s CEO Dr. Markus Schmidt was invited to teach at the 20th October at the Geopolitics and Global Futures Symposium 2022, organized by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. The overall topic was Transformative Technologies and Security where Dr....
May 4, 2022 | Events, neurotechnology, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Markus Schmidt from Biofaction was invited as a guest speaker at the OECD workshop titled “Human augmentation: a challenge for governance?” The workshop was part of the 15th Session of the working party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging...
Apr 21, 2022 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Lei Pei and Markus Schmidt from Biofaction, together with Michele Garfinkel from EMBO, recently published a paper in Nature Communications titled Bottlenecks and opportunities for synthetic biology biosafety standards. The article is open access:...
