Archive for the ‘Synthetic Biology’ Category
Story of "Synthia" the (theoretical) human-made synthetic microbe
“The Story of Synthia” explains — in a cartoon — how some scientists are attempting to create synthetic “life.” By replacing the genome of a natural microbe with a human-made genome constructed from synthetic DNA, they hope to give birth [...]
SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology
As I mentioned in my previous posts that for next few days we are going to cover various interesting activities related to iGEM 2009 and selected student projects will be featured on the Fisheye Perspective blog. Next in our list [...]
Public perception and Synthetic Reality
If synthetic biology fulfills its promise it has potential to replace the world created by Darwinian evolution with one created by us. At least that’s what Michael Specter’s recent story published in September 28th issue of The New Yorker suggests. [...]
We essentially want to create a drug factory in your nose
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2009 Jamboree dates are coming closer and for next few days we are going to look around the wikis to learn more about what different teams are doing this year. iGEM 2009 is bigger [...]
What synthetic biology can learn from programming languages
What is synthetic biology? In simple words Synthetic biology is nothing but putting engineering into biology. An engineered genetic toggle switch developed by Tim Gardner and Jim Collins is a good example of how engineering principles are driving the boat [...]
