Dutch kids explore SYNMOD game
Developing novel antibiotics has become a kids play. Developed by Biofaction as a fun and interactive learning tool for university students, the mobile SYNMOD game is now also played by younger high school students. Our SYNMOD project partner Auke van Heel from the...
Public Consultation in Synthetic Biology
The European Commission and its Scientific Committees have launched a public consultation on the first preliminary opinion on Synthetic Biology – Definition. Biofaction's Markus Schmidt has been one of the co-authors of this opinion. All interested parties are invited...
Bio Commons@Pixelache
THE BIO COMMONS Markus Schmidt will give a keynote presentation at the 2014 Pixelache Festival in Helsinki, Finnland, 6th June 2014. In the case of Bio-commons, developments in biotechnology rely mainly on patents as means to enable and secure innovations. The new...
Gold Medal for SYNMOD Game
SYNMOD Game receives a gold medal. Here it is, without further ado...
School kids against nasty bugs
Science gamification enables youngsters to meet synthetic biology The SYNMOD game, developed by Biofaction, is a serious game for mobile devices. The game is addressing the problem of multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria and is showing the way to create new...
The rise of amateur biologists in Europe
Biotechnology is no longer the unique realm of traditional venues such as university or industry labs. In recent years a growing number of Do-it-yourself Biology (DIY-Bio) groups established themselves in Europe. On pages 548–551 of the June 2014 Bioessays issue,...
New Film about Synthetic Biology in Europe
We are proud to present our latest 30 minutes film about Synthetic Biology in Europe! Synthetic Biology is an emerging field in at the intersection of biotechnology, information technology and biochemistry with the aim to make biology easier to engineer. But what...
The First Xenobiology Conference: XB1
The First Conference on Xenobiology (XB1) aims to gather scientists, engineers, designers, policy makers and other stakeholders to chart the paths toward an entirely novel biodiversity. The conference will take place in Genoa, Italy, from 6 to 8 of May, 2014. The XB1...
SYNMOD game v.1.3
The latest and best version of the SYNMOD game is now available for download. Version 1.3. comes with a short video intro, improved playability and smaller file size for faster downloading. SYNMOD game is available for Android and Apple mobile devices.
BacHBERRY: Sustainable use of valuable berry ingredients
BacHBERRY, a 3-year project funded by the EC-FP7, leads the way in sustainable use of secondary metabolites from natural molecules The project BacHBERRY: “The BacHBerry project will develop a portfolio of sustainable methodologies to mine the potential of the untapped...
Visualizing Biological Data
We participated with a Poster at the 2nd EMBO Conference on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI 2014). 5-7 March 2014 at EMBL-Heidelberg in Germany.
Three new art-science publications
We now have our three latest art-science publications available as open access: ★ Schmidt M, Meyer A, Cserer A. (2013). The film festival Bio:fiction: sensing possibilities how a debate about synthetic biology might evolve. Public Understanding of Science. online...