ÖAW Symposium
Symposium zur Synthetische Biologie an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Synbio Summer School
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...
Making Perfect Life
European Parliament publishes the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) - Options Brief No 2012-08, about "Making Perfect Life: European Governance Challenges in 21st Century Bio-engineering". The Assessment was carried out by a number of European...
Ausstellung der Wiener Biokunst
Nature Animée Kunst und Molekularbiologie? Die Bioart Gruppe Pavillon 35 bringt diese Felder zusammen. Lebende Materialien wie Pilze, Bakterien, Samen von Orchideen, Bohnen und Erbsen werden künstlerisch transformiert. Ebenso werden Konzepte aus Anatomie und...
I can’t get rid of the horses
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 once they have...
Biosafety in synthetic biology
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)...
Persistent genes for synthetic life
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...
Synth-ethic in Fahrenheit° Magazine
Mexican art magazine Fahrenheit° published an extensive article about our Bioart exhibition "synth-ethic". .
Communicating Biotechnology
Together with Helge Torgersen, Markus Schmidt published a chapter in the recent ACATECH volume on Communicating Biotechnology with a special focus on synthetic biology.
Synthetic Biology publication
New book publication by Biofaction: Schmidt M. (ed.) 2012: Synthetic Biology: Industrial and Environmental Applications
Bioart – Art from the Laboratory
Biofaction and Styblo TV presented the documentary film "Bioart, Art from the Laboratory". More...
Presenting World Wide Views on Biodiversity
As part of the first-ever global citizen consultation on Biodiversity, Biofaction's documentary film on biodiversity will be shown on Thursday October 18, 2012, in Hyderabd India at the COP11 meeting of the United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity. ...