Archive for the ‘Synthetic Biology’ Category
Synthetic Kingdom as Networked Spaghetti
Alexandra Daisy, an artist turned synthetic biologist is trying to redesigne the Tree of Life. Daisy recently posted some new iterations of her work on the Synthetic Kingdom and Synthetic Kingdom as networked spaghetti is one of them. Interestingly some [...]
This week in synthetic biology
This was another incredible week for synthetic biology community, again several peer reviewed papers made their way to This week in synthetic biology (TWiSB). This was a week of riboswitches, biofuels and biological nanofactories which we will be discussing in [...]
This week in synthetic biology
This was an amazing week for synthetic biology community, part of the reason is the synthetic biology has completed 10 years since the very first synthetically engineered biological oscillator and toggle switch were introduced in journal Nature in year 2000. [...]
Symphony and synchrony of bacterial time keeping machines
One of the coolest videos I ever seen, demonstrating the enormous potential of synthetic biology. Its nearly 10 years since the advent of the synthetic biology and the very first synthetic biological oscillator. Despite all challenges and hypes synthetic biology [...]
Nothing wrong with synthetic biology, It's just B-I-O-L-O-G-Y and the rest is silence
Recent issue of Nature magazine has few very interesting articles about synthetic biology and one of them is “Five hard truths for synthetic biology” written by Roberta Kwok. When I first read this article my first reaction was- nothing wrong [...]
30 million US$? That's the cost to commercially synthesize the complete human genome
It is well known fact that cost of DNA sequencing continues to fall rapidly. As Rob Carlson suggests that “The race to the bottom is well under way”. Image credits www.synthesis.cc In the sequencing world the prices already reached to [...]
Genetic modification of plant cell wall may scale-up biofuel production
Drive for creating synthetic biofuels is gaining momenta. In fact synthetic biology community is trying to use bacteria and yeast as platform to creat biofuels. To this end microbes can convert the simple fermentable sugar into ethanol or other products. [...]
Reinventing the drug discovery wih synthetic biology
Andrew Hessel talks about his initiative the Pink Army Collective (PAC), a company inspired from principle and success of open source movements such as Apache and Linux. If it works PAC will bring fundamental change to the way drugs are [...]
Optical Cell 2 Duo lac operon: Bridging the gap between Bacteria and Yeast
Students from iGEM Harward team are using the optical communication to create a physically distributed lac operon between a bacteria and an yeast cell which normally occur within the same cell. Idea is to use the principles of synthetic biology [...]
Mackenzie Cowell's Fascination with Synthetic Biology
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org, an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. Mackenzie was recently interviewed by MAKE [...]
