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Read more at: WaterScope named in Nominet Trust 100: 2016’s most inspiring examples of tech for good
WaterScope named in Nominet Trust 100: 2016’s most inspiring examples of tech for good

WaterScope named in Nominet Trust 100: 2016’s most inspiring examples of tech for good

21 December 2016

WaterScope is a social enterprise making use of an open-source 3D-printed microscope designed by Dr Richard Bowman, who received a SynBio Fund to support his work in 2015. They have been named as one of the Nominet Trust's 100 most inspiring examples of tech for good in 2016.


Read more at: UK bioeconomy: call for evidence
UK bioeconomy: call for evidence

UK bioeconomy: call for evidence

15 December 2016

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy is leading a call for evidence which seeks your input to help shape UK bioeconomy strategy.


Read more at: Co-Lab OpenPlant: an interdisciplinary science design workshop
Co-Lab OpenPlant: an interdisciplinary science design workshop

Co-Lab OpenPlant: an interdisciplinary science design workshop

5 December 2016

The 5th edition of Co-Lab workshop was hosted in Cambridge, including Makespace Cambridge and Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge. This workshop received a grant from the OpenPlant Fund, with the aim to spur discussion of plant synthetic biology from an ethnographic point of view. The facilitator, Open Science School, is an non-profit based in Paris interested in exploration of open source technology in the fields of education, design and beyond.


Read more at: Programmable biology in the test tube: new interdisciplinary activity series launched by SRI
Programmable biology in the test tube: new interdisciplinary activity series launched by SRI

Programmable biology in the test tube: new interdisciplinary activity series launched by SRI

29 November 2016

In vitro or cell-free synthetic biology is a topic of growing interest to many groups in Cambridge and the Synthetic Biology SRI is pleased to announce an upcoming programme of activities to promote and support interdisciplinary work in this space.


Read more at: Artificial symmetry-breaking for morphogenetic engineering bacterial colonies
Artificial symmetry-breaking for morphogenetic engineering bacterial colonies

Artificial symmetry-breaking for morphogenetic engineering bacterial colonies

28 November 2016

An international team of researchers from University of Cambridge, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Stanford University recently published a paper in ACS Synthetic Biology that sought to apply synthetic biology approaches to the engineering of morphologies in multicellular systems.


Read more at: Call for participation in 4th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - to be held in Cambridge!
Call for participation in 4th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - to be held in Cambridge!

Call for participation in 4th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - to be held in Cambridge!

25 November 2016

The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Robinson College - University of Cambridge - UK on cutting-edge advances in systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts.


Read more at: Genomics and Genome Editing inquiry launched by Commons Science & Technology Committee
Genomics and Genome Editing inquiry launched by Commons Science & Technology Committee

Genomics and Genome Editing inquiry launched by Commons Science & Technology Committee

25 November 2016

Science and Technology Committee launch an inquiry into genomics and genome-editing. The Committee welcomes written submissions by Friday 6 January 2017.


Read more at: SynBio Fund Success: If you can protoplast, you can encapsulate
SynBio Fund Success: If you can protoplast, you can encapsulate

SynBio Fund Success: If you can protoplast, you can encapsulate

23 November 2016

The following is a guest post from the SynBio Fund project 'Development of a microfluidic device for high-throughput analysis of genetic circuits in plant protoplasts' from by Steven Burgess, Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Christian R. Boehm, Sara Abalde-Cela and Paul Bennett.


Read more at: iGEM 2016: The story behind the gold medal winning project
iGEM 2016: The story behind the gold medal winning project

iGEM 2016: The story behind the gold medal winning project

20 November 2016

The Cambridge-JIC iGEM Team won a Gold Medal and Plant Synthetic Biology Prize for their project on open source synthetic biology tools for chloroplast engineering in algae. Team member Ciara McCarthy takes us through how they did it!


Read more at: iGEM Update: Standardising DNA – why bother?
iGEM Update: Standardising DNA – why bother?

iGEM Update: Standardising DNA – why bother?

20 November 2016

The Cambridge-JIC iGEM Team 2016 explored open source synthetic biology tools for chloroplast engineering in algae.