Fuel From Waste? – ScienceNOW
“A team led by Jay Keasling, a bioengineer at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California, worked to extend the strategy to make more commonly...
Tag: syntheticbiology
A “shucks” followed by a “yay” and the some: SXSW 2012 panels announced
No, my panel on DIYbio was not chosen. That’s the “shucks”. The great news is that Christina Agapakis’ panel “Designing Living Thi...
Suicide-Bombing Bacteria Could Fight Infections – ScienceNOW
“The researchers tweaked the genes that allow P. aeruginosa to detect other members of its species and put this synthetic genetic code into E. coli’...
Follow our efforts to get bio panels into SXSW 2012
Folks, @thisischristina (and writer at SciAm’s Oscillator) and I both submitted panel proposals for SXSW 2012. We’re going to need some help getting...
Ginkgo organism engineers and the pipe – Ginkgoo blog
“Here I’ll try to give a high-level picture of Ginkgo’s pipeline for organism engineering. If you’ve checked out our webpage, you’ll see that we have seve...
Chemically evolved bacteria
“European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA. The genome should be unable to transfer back in...
DARPA to Offer $30 Million to Jump-Start Cellular Factories – ScienceInsider
“Approved barely a month ago, the $30 million Living Foundries program should be sending out a request for proposals in the next few weeks and making awar...