Artists in Residence have been selected!

Nov 12, 2020 | announcement, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

This past spring, we opened a call for new Artist in Residence programs for MADONNA (2 residencies), NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. We received 166 submissions from 43 countries. The quality of the proposals was outstanding, and we were amazed by the exciting ideas of the...

Carbon Futures at Science Gallery Detroit

Oct 30, 2020 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

We are very happy to announce that our installation “Carbon Futures” is on display at the Science Gallery Detroit since September 2020. The exhibition “FUTURE PRESENT: Design in a Time of Urgency” deals amongst other things with the impact of...

Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms

Oct 12, 2020 | announcement, News, publication, Publications, Synthetic Biology

Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, together with Nediljko Budisa and Vladimir Kubyshkin, had the opportunity to edit a special collection for ChemBioChem. The special issue is called “Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms” and it deals, as the title...

New Articles: Xenobiology & Biological Standards

May 7, 2020 | announcement, News, publication, Publications, Synthetic Biology

We’ve collaborated on two new open-access papers that we think will provide you with food for thought: The first, titled “The long journey towards standards for engineering biosystems”, featured in EMBO reports, springs out of an ongoing discussion about adopting...

Call for Artist in Residence

Apr 29, 2020 | announcement, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

Biofaction is seeking applications for new Artist in Residence programmes for MADONNA, NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with scientists working on one of three Synthetic Biology related projects that delve into...

Tobacco plants could save your lungs from COVID-19

Apr 17, 2020 | announcement, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology

The SARS-COV-2 virus has caused one of the largest, devastating and socioeconomically staggering pandemics since the 1918 Spanish flu – the COVID-19 pandemic. A large number of public and private research groups are working around the clock in a race to develop...