Battle for Cattle in 12 Languages
Adhityo Wicaksono who is the head division of Biotechnology at Genbinesia Foundation visited us here in Vienna. He translated our science game Battle for Cattle in Indonesian and was also in our jury of Bio-fiction Science Art Film Festival. Battle for Cattle is...
Fascination of Plants Day 2019
2019 has been a busy year with many interesting events. One of the past events that we would like to highlight is our collaboration with Dr. Eva Stöger from the Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology from BOKU. We took part at the Fascination of Plants Day...
SinFonia: Introducing the element fluorine to the symphony of life!
We created an animated short clip for the project SinFonia. The clip reflects the project's aims and methods in an entertaining way with musical elements. Have a look at it below! Materials containing the element fluorine (F) are extremely important in our modern...
Announcing Our New Project: BioRoboost
We are participating in a new project: BioRoboost - Fostering snythetic biology standardisation through international collaboration. The project aims set up an international collaborative network on synthetic biology standards. Synthetic biology as any other...
BIO·FICTION 2019
The new edition of BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival took place on September 23 and 24, 2019 in Vienna. We had two days of rich and exciting content dealing with Neurotechnologies - with short film screenings, cross-disciplinary...
Exciting Events for Our Science Game: Battle for Cattle
This summer, we held a workshop and competed in a serious game competition at the ISAGA Conference with Battle for Cattle. We were able to gain some great insights about simulation as well as gaming and had the chance to present our game at one of the most...
Our New Serious Game: Battle for Cattle
We are very happy to announce the launch of our new serious game: Battle for Cattle. Battle for Cattle is a fun game where you learn everything about diseases, treatment, bacteria and viruses. As a player, you are in charge of a farm and are confronted with sick cows....
The BIO·FICTION 2019 festival program is now online!
Biofaction is organizing a new edition BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival. The theme of this edition is: FUTUREBODY. Neurotechnologies will be our focal points of convergences between: neural networks, the body, mind, intelligence, society,...
Our New Project: SinFonia
We are very happy to introduce you to our new project: SinFonia. SinFonia aims to produce novel fluorochemicals in a biological way. The project wants to engineer the metabolically-versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to execute biofluorinations for generating novel...
OPEN CALL for Films! 2019 BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival
Submissions for the 2019 BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival are now open! Biofaction is organizing a new edition for the 2019 BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival. The theme of this year’s festival is: FUTUREBODY. We’re looking for short films dealing with how...
Introducing The Beast in Yeast!
We’re proud to present our latest animation clip, The Beast in Yeast: OPATHY. We had a great time developing the story line with OPATHY (Omics of PATHogenics Yeasts) to address something that is not very well known: how yeast, such as Candida, can turn into dangerous...
Impressions from “Designerbabys, Mammuts & Co”
Markus Schmidt explained de-extinction in the light of massive global biodiversity loss. The presentations were followed by an hour of Q&A with the audience in Theater Akzent. Thanks to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the invitation, Helge Torgersen for the...