Carbon Futures at Science Gallery Detroit
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 technological and...
Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms
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 suggests,...
AIL*ien Talk between Art and Science: online events June 24 – 26, 2020
We've been invited to participate in an exciting series of online breakfast discussions hosted by the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, AIL - which is a unique initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It's designed to bring scientists, artists, designers...
Battle for Cattle at GameDays 2020 online!
We're showcasing our latest game "Battle for Cattle" at GameDays 2020, an international conference on serious games! The event, organised by TU Darmstadt, will be held online on 18 May 2020 and it has a full program with a workshop, a panel discussion and a virtual...
New Articles: Xenobiology & Biological Standards
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
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
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...
Designing multi-purpose vaccines
Vienna, 25th March 2020 Scientists from the five year EU funded project MycoSynVac report their findings and successes at a final meeting in Brussels. The project drew on cutting edge biotechnology to explore three important GOALS: TRANSFORM a living bacteria...
Updates on Battle for Cattle
While we're reaching the end of the successful project MycoSynVac, we had the chance to organize several communication activities with the project's game Battle for Cattle. We ran a classroom session in Vienna on February 27th, 2020 and used our educational package...
Bacteria as CO2 recycling powerhouse
There are great news about the EU project eForFuel, which works towards replacing fossil fuel by recycling CO2:Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) have reached a significant breakthrough presented in their recent Nature Chemical Biology publication....
Battle for Cattle at Wissens°raum!
Another exciting event for our science game! Together with our Viennese partner Wissens°raum from the Austrian Science Center Netzwerk, we organized an event for Battle for Cattle on Saturday, 14.12.2019. Wissens°raum is an amazing space for trying, tinkering and...
Make LOVE not poison!
Sex sells, even in the form of pheromons. Have a look at our new animation produced for DTU Copenhagen which explains the sex pheromones that Olefine is developing using synthetic biology as a replacement for insecticides. Conventionally the pest insects are sprayed...