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In the 1970’s the first genetically engineering bacteria were used to produce human insulin on a commercial scale. 
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Synthetic biology — which includes the development of fuels, organ tissue and tumor-destroying bacteria — became a focus of government ...
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A biosafety expert at one of the nation’s leading research centers resigned last summer amid complaints that it was not doing enough to prevent a biological disaster.
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In nature, helical macromolecules such as collagen, chitin and cellulose are critical to the morphogenesis and functionality of various hierarchically structured materials.
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The Synthetic Biology Institute aims to create transformative processes, products and technologies that meet real-world demands in energy, health, agriculture, manufacturing and security. Backed by Agilent Technologies, SBI ...
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Researchers are invited to apply for funding from a new Joint Synthetic Biology Initiative, which has made up to £2.4M available from the Biotechnology and...
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Biological design principles for synthetic biology Abstract: The ability to rationally design biological systems holds tremendous promise for applications in medicine, manufacturing, energy, and the environment. As biological complexity and evolution can pose threats to the ease and stability of an engineering approach, emerging principles of biological design have urged abstraction and standardization of biological modules with defined functions. However, the power of biology as a design substrate lies first and foremost in the rich diversity and complexity of evolved biological systems. Instead of flattening and eliminating such diversity, can we instead employ our ever-deepening understanding of processes that drive diversity and evolutionary change as tools for synthetic biology design? This dissertation explores several such design principles and platforms for synthetic biology--protein domains that transfer high-energy electrons, cyanobacteria, plants, and cheese serve as physical platforms, while gene recombination, cellular cooperation, and personalization emerge as conceptual platforms. A more integrated and biological approach to synthetic biology has potential to lead to robust designs with multiple future applications. Advisor: Silver, Pamela
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Daily MailLogic gates from bacteria and DNAElectronicsWeekly.com"One of challenges is finding a way to link biological logic gates together to enable complex processing to be carried out," said the university.
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#LSF11 | 20 Oct, 7-9pm - 'Synthetic Biology', @danacentre http://t.co/UStuBcPJ via @LondonSciFest...
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The aim of synthetic biology is to make genetic systems more amenable to engineering, which has naturally led to the development of computer-aided design (CAD) tools. Experimentalists still primarily rely on project-specific ad hoc workflows instead of domain-specific tools, which suggests that CAD tools are lagging behind the front line of the field. Here, we discuss the scientific hurdles that have limited the productivity gains anticipated from existing tools. We argue that the real value of efforts to develop CAD tools is the formalization of genetic design rules that determine the complex relationships between genotype and phenotype.
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Synthetic Biology: Machine or Life? ....this Thursday at Dana Centre...
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Synthetic biology could offer truly sustainable approaches to the built environment, predict Rachel Armstrong and Neil Spiller.
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Patrick Schaeffer (James Cook University) has met an important milestone towards an Universal Diagnostics Platform http://bit.ly/o0HTnr
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foursquare (Prepping synthetic biology workshop. Hoping to sneak out for a walk before the chaos!
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“We took our inspiration from nature,” said Lee, who is also a member of the Synthetic Biology Institute at UC Berkeley. “Nature has a unique ability to create functional materials from very basic building blocks.
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1 comment to J. Craig Venter on Synthetic Biology at NASA Ames. dylanlawless1. October 19,2011 at 1:14 pm ·Reply. If scientists were frat guys I think 32:45 would get some cheering. ...
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Hi there. I'm a design & code creative living, working and studying in sunny Brooklyn, NY. I'm currently exploring data representation within the context of the networked urban environment as well as the DIY health and ...
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The emerging field of synthetic biology combines knowledge from various disciplines including molecular biology, engineering, mathematics, and physics to design and implement new cellular behaviors. The goal of synthetic biology is ...
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Scientists have claimed that they can build some of the basic components for digital devices out of bacteria and DNA, suggesting a new generation of biological computing devices.
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RT @DrTomEllis: Engineering modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates for robust digital-like synthetic biology http://t.co/ZqGPmPgd...
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"Artificial life, 20 years later (3 / 4): When embryogenesis machine remodels personal manufacturing."
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Jonathan Blakes, Jamie Twycross, Francisco J. Romero-Campero, Natalio Krasnogor. Bioinformatics (12 October 2011).
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From an open-source anti-malarial compound to renewable energy resources, Amyris Biotechnologies CEO John Melo explains his enterprise's corporate acts of altruism, as funded by the Gates Foundation.
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