Apr 10, 2013 | Events, science, Science in Society
April 9-11, 2013. University of Cambridge, UK Synthetic biology promises to change the world in significant ways, yet it is largely unrecognized within the field of conservation. This conference will bring together the synthetic biology and the conservation...
Mar 21, 2013 | art-science, Events, science
Symposium zur Synthetische Biologie an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Mar 20, 2013 | Events, science, Science in Society
The upcoming hands-on Summer Course on Synthetic Biology will take place in Madrid this Jun 23-Jul 6. Sponsored by the ST-FLOW Project and the ERASynBio Eranet, the accepted students will be defrayed their registration and accommodation expenses and there will be a...
Feb 14, 2013 | science, Science in Society
Recent findings throughout Europe demonstrated that “Beef” was in many cases horse meat. One can only speculate how long this foul practice has been going on and how many other products contain surprising ingredients. How often are food products tested...
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...
