The Hydra Reader
The Hydra Project – Maja Smrekar < Hu.M.C.C. > At Corner College, Kochstrasse 1, Zurich (CH) August 25-30, 2015 An installation and work in progress curated by Boris Magrini as part of Hackteria’s The Hydra Project. The Hydra Project is an initiative of...
SciArt Café in Berlin
On August 7th the SciArt Café took place at co-working, learning and sharing space Betahaus in Berlin organised in collaboration with Desiree Foerster and Johann Bauerfeind. About 45 guests and fascinating discussions around synthetic biology, including hot topics...
PUBLIC CONSULTATION on the Preliminary Opinion on Synthetic Biology III: Research Priorities
The European Commission and its non-food Scientific Committees have launched a public consultation on the preliminary opinion on Synthetic Biology III: Research priorities. Biofaction's Markus Schmidt has co-authored the paper. Preliminary opinion This is the last in...
We are hiring! Suchen engagierten App-Programmierer
Suchen engagierten App-Programmierer Die Biofaction KG ist ein in Wien ansässiges Unternehmen im Bereich Wissenschaftskommunikation. Zur Ergänzung unseres Teams suchen wir einen Programmierer für die Umsetzung von insgesamt drei Gaming Apps für IOS und Android. Was...
Metafood, Metacode, Metalife
Biofaction is very excited to host the "Metafood, Metacode, Metalife" workshop together with the iGEM Paris Bettencourt Team at the Centre Recherches Interdisciplinaires in Paris for their NightScience Event. The topic of this year's NightScience Event is...
Biofaction now on Facebook
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Biofaction @ TU Graz
Biofaction’s Dr. Lei Pei has presented a lecture titled ‘Novel Genetic Firewall to Improve Biocontainment‘ at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, TU Graz in June. During Dr. Pei’s visit in TU Graz, she discussed the project of the first Austrain iGEM team, which...
Orkan Telhan Selected As Artist In Residence To Explore Synthetic Biology
Introduction The interdisciplinary artist Orkan Telhan who is also an assistant professor of Fine Arts at University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as the artist in residency for a six week programme at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT),...
Recommended read: Achselhöhlen-Käse und farbige Fäkalien @ Tagespiegel
Recommended read on Der Tagesspiegel (in German): Der belgische Künstler Tuur Van Balen hat in einer Installation durchgespielt, wie sich Tauben mithilfe von synthetisch umprogrammierten Bakterien im Futter zu Produzenten von biologisch abbaubarer Seife umwandeln...
Synthetic Biology Gets Inspiration from the Sea
by Olga Radchuck and Markus Schmidt (Biofaction, Austria) published on plos.org June 23, 2015. A solution for the problem of antibiotic resistance, threatening public health, may come from an unexpected source. Marine sponges, for a long time regarded as a source of a...
Unlocking marine biotechnology
By Markus Schmidt published on nature.com on 22.06.2015 Although marine organisms are known as a source of bioactive compounds with pharmaceutical applications such as antibiotics, antivirals, analgetics, immunomodulatory-, antitumor-, anti-inflammatory-,...
Starbeasts – An Interstellar Zeitgeber (‘time-giver’)
by Stephen Fortune, Andy Gracie, Markus Schmidt, Georg Tremmel Presented during MAKING_Life in Helsinki. Cyanobacteria (S.elongatus PCC 7942), continuous culture device, acrylic, electronics Star Beasts subjects cyanobacteria (‘blue-green algae’) to artificial...