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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.

Read more at: Explore genome editing and society with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Genome Hacking Retreat, 12-17 March 2017
Explore genome editing and society with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Genome Hacking Retreat, 12-17 March 2017

Explore genome editing and society with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Genome Hacking Retreat, 12-17 March 2017

16 November 2016

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (KIT-ITAS) invites invites biologists, computer and hardware engineers, lawyers, social scientists, artists and designers to a week-long retreat discussing the consequences of a democratized and decentralised use of genome editing in the near future.

Read more at: Review of Plant Synthetic Biology at iGEM 2016
Review of Plant Synthetic Biology at iGEM 2016

Review of Plant Synthetic Biology at iGEM 2016

16 November 2016

Geraint Parry of GARNet runs through the plant synthetic biology projects showcased at the iGEM 2016 Giant Jamboree, including the Cambridge-JIC team and their work on chloroplast engineering in Chlamydomonas rheinhardtii.

Read more at: Cambridge iGEM team win Gold Medal and Best Plant Synthetic Biology Prize at prestigious international competition
Cambridge iGEM team win Gold Medal and Best Plant Synthetic Biology Prize at prestigious international competition

Cambridge iGEM team win Gold Medal and Best Plant Synthetic Biology Prize at prestigious international competition

15 November 2016

A team of Cambridge students have been awarded a Gold Medal and Best Plant Synthetic Biology Prize for their entry into the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition 2016.

Read more at: Sculpting evolution? A multidisciplinary workshop explores regulatory, legal and ethical perspectives of gene drive
Sculpting evolution? A multidisciplinary workshop explores regulatory, legal and ethical perspectives of gene drive

Sculpting evolution? A multidisciplinary workshop explores regulatory, legal and ethical perspectives of gene drive

14 November 2016

Gene drives are systems that enable genes to spread rapidly within entire populations. They are powerful tools that potentially allow society to engineer evolution but, like many other human actions, carry social, legal, ethical and environmental implications. An interdisciplinary workshop in Cambridge convened to discuss these implications in the UK context.

Read more at: Readership in Synthetic Biology announced for Department of Engineering
Readership in Synthetic Biology announced for Department of Engineering

Readership in Synthetic Biology announced for Department of Engineering

9 November 2016

The Department of Engineering is to host a Readership in Synthetic Biology, the first senior synthetic biology position in Cambridge to be created with support from both Engineering and the School of Biological Sciences.

Read more at: SRI activities showcased at Science Hackday PDX

SRI activities showcased at Science Hackday PDX

26 October 2016

Science Makers and SynBio Fund projects were showcased at Science Hackday PDX, 7-8 Oct, an interdisciplinary event in Portland to create engagement with open tools and software.

Read more at: Call for Proposals - BioFabbing: Fabrications and Fabulations

Call for Proposals - BioFabbing: Fabrications and Fabulations

17 October 2016

This three-day conference on critical studies of biohacking and do-it-yourself biology (DIYbio), organized by Gabriela A. Sanchez, Sara Tocchetti and Bruno J. Strasser (University of Geneva), will take place May 10-12, 2017 at UniverCité (an innovation space in Renens, near Lausanne, Switzerland), together with a DIYbio European network meeting, May 12-13, 2017, organized by Luc Henry (Hackuarium).

Read more at: Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes Genome editing: an ethical review
Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes Genome editing: an ethical review

Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes Genome editing: an ethical review

30 September 2016

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today published the first findings of its programme of work looking at the recent and potential impact of recent advances in genome editing such as the CRISPR-Cas9 system across many areas of biological research.

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