Feb 26, 2018 | announcement, News, project, Science Communication, Synthetic Biology
We are participating in a new EU-funded project, NEWCOTIANA. It is a research and innovation action that combines several new plant breeding techniques to produce medical and cosmetic products in tobacco plants. Taking advantage of cutting-edge molecular breeding...
Feb 1, 2018 | Creative, Film & Video, Media, News, project, Science Communication, Stories, Synthetic Biology
In this music video produced by Biofaction, MC Grease da Disease, A.K.A. Mycoplasma bovis, is a pathogenic bacteria that causes diseases in cows. Unharmed by even antibiotics, he lives unhindered like a rogue in the cow’s lung, until the researchers of the EC...
Jan 22, 2018 | Classic, Media, News, publication, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
In a recent guest blog in Nature biotechnology’s Bioentrepreneur Trade Secrets, Markus Schmidt reported about the latest developments in designing novel vaccines. The reprogramming of Mycoplasma bacteria from pathogens to vaccines is only made possible thanks to...
Dec 11, 2017 | art-science, Creative, Media, News, Science Communication, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Saturday 9th December, BBC 3 covered the works of our artist in residence Eduardo R. Miranda. Eduardo spent a few weeks as artist in residence of the EU SYNPETIDE project that aimed to design novel synthetic antibiotics. At the University of Regensburg, one of the...
Dec 4, 2017 | Creative, Film & Video, News, Science Communication, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction’s documentary film “The Berrymakers” was selected from 1300 film entries at the 7th International Festival of Documentary Films on Life Sciences in Prague! :-) Watch the film online: The Berrymakers from Biofaction on...
Nov 16, 2017 | art-science, Creative, Science Communication, Serious Games, Synthetic Biology
Much can and has been said about an issue that we face globally today and that endangers human health in a very real way: the problem of ever-increasing antibiotic resistance. But what does this problem actually entail, and how can we make it tangible? What does the...
