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Eric Lander, the head of the Broad Institute, went from the most solitary of sciences (math) to forging collaborations on the leading edge of biology, a field he never formally studied. 
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An EU project to engineer "chemical computers" that mimic the actions of neurons in the brain has begun.
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"The World Championship Jamboree is over and the grand prize winner has been found, which means that the iGEM off-season begins today. We will still continue to blog about iGEM in the off-season, but also mix in a little more non-iGEM content. Today I want to show you this interesting TED talk by Martin Hanczyc about “Proto Cells” and how life might have first occured on earth...."
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Geneticist George Church believes that genome sequencing can bring us closer to personalized medicine. Several years ago, Church launched the Personal Genome...
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Let's say you want to identify the mold on that leftover pizza or do a very discreet paternity test. You're going to need DNA. A lot of it. ...
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"...Synthetic biology ushers in an era where Kevin Kelly suggested we will transition “from the born to the made”..."
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Fast CoExistMillions Of Glowing Bacteria Form A New Light SourceFast CoExistIt's a tour de force of synthetic biology in which researchers have engineered the genetic code and behavior of organisms to respond to specific triggers in the environment.
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The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It serves as an introduction to the fundamental science and engineering on which biomedical engineering is based.
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Still interesting! See free PDF - Proceedings! - The Third International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) at DAC will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities. The focus is on concepts, methodologies and software tools for the computational analysis of biological systems and the synthesis of biological systems.
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"RNA nanotechnology has a unique set of advantages as a pathway technology toward atomically precise productive nanosystems that reflect its central role in biological systems. Unlike the simple Watson-Crick base-pair molecular recognition code that underlies DNA nanotechnology, the more complex rules of base-pairing involved in RNA folding allow RNA to fold into compact complex three-dimensional shapes. These shapes are somewhat reminiscent of the complex folds of protein structures, yet the folding rules are considerably simpler than those of proteins. These RNA CAD tools may be an important step toward powerful design tools for folded polymer paths toward molecular machine systems."
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Synthetic Biology will play an Important Role in the future of the industrial economy...
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"DNA synthesis techniques and technologies are quickly becoming a cornerstone of modern molecular biology and play a pivotal role in the field of synthetic biology. The ability to synthesize whole genes, novel genetic pathways, and even entire genomes is no longer the dream it was 30 years ago. Using little more than a thermocycler, commercially synthesized oligonucleotides, and DNA polymerases, a standard molecular biology laboratory can synthesize several kilobase pairs of synthetic DNA in a week using existing techniques. Herein, we review the techniques used in the generation of synthetic DNA, from the chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides to their assembly into long, custom sequences. Software and websites to facilitate the execution of these approaches are explored, and applications of DNA synthesis techniques to gene expression and synthetic biology are discussed. Finally, an example of automated gene synthesis from our own laboratory is provided."
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TED Talks In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too.
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George Church talks about where the future of personal genomics is headed and what research has yielded so far.
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Comment: Nurturing Next Nature By Christina Agapakis http://bit.ly/tLZFJc
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MIT synthetic biologist, David Kong, is in town for the New Year and has offered to share his work in microfluidics with BioCurious while he's here.
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Thinkers at IDEO are working with scientists to find a way to have E. coli bacteria form objects--like a coffee cup--when exposed to light. It's nature's version of 3-D printing.
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Research expected to help scientists to discover new ways of genetically engineering bacteria to manufacture biofuels overturns a generally accepted 44-year-old assumption about how certain kinds of bacteria make energy and synthesize cell materials.
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(Note: Audio silent until 0:50) Equinox Graphics produced a series of animations to explore the abstract world of synthetic biology, allowing the concepts of...
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http://facebook.com/hashem.alghaili Synthetic biology is a new area of biological research that combines science and engineering. It encompasses a variety of...
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