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Open Technologies Highlight: In vivo sensing of pH in tomato plants

23 January 2024

Precision agriculture can provide farmers with valuable information about their crops and help improve yields. Researchers Antonio Ruiz Gonzales and Prof. Jim Haseloff are developing a low-cost open-source pH sensor to help directly monitor stress in plants.

Photo of the first cohort of i-Teams students from the Hanoi Institute of Science and Technology. Below are logos for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, i-Teams, the Centre for Global Equality and the Hanoi Institute of Science and Technology

Can Your Technology Make a Difference?

22 January 2024

Cambridge Development i-Teams are searching for early-stage engineering biology research projects with the potential to make a difference in people's lives.

Open Tech Collaborations Seed Fund Winners Announced

16 January 2024

The EngBio IRC is pleased to present the winning projects selected for the Open Tech Collaborations Seed Fund. Learn more about the four interdisciplinary projects that will be taking place over the next few months and the Cambridge researchers spearheading them.

Open Technologies Highlight: OSAIRIS

18 December 2023

Hoping to improve the time consuming process of manually annotating patient’s radiotherapy scans, Dr Rajesh Jena and Microsoft Research used artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop OSAIRIS, one of the first pieces of open source software to be clinically approved and deployed as a medical device.

UK Government publishes a “National Vision for Engineering Biology”

13 December 2023

The UK Government has published a new “National Vision for Engineering Biology'' highlighting strengths, challenges and opportunities in UK Engineering Biology research. The report outlines how the government plans to support the growth of the bioeconomy up to 2030, including pledging £2 billion in investment.

Call for Engineering Biology i-Teams projects for South East Asia

6 December 2023

i-Teams ( www.iteamsonline.org ) is currently selecting projects for our ASEAN i-Teams programme. This will run at ITB (Bandung, Indonesia) in February-March 2024, and also at HUST (Hanoi, Vietnam) and ITB (Bandung) later in 2024.

Nesta presents evidence for and against betting on synthetic biology, a powerful emerging technology, to tackle the climate crisis.

4 December 2023

Tech in the Dock puts an emerging technology on trial to examine its potential impact on society. Nesta is asking - should synthetic biology be the next decade’s big bet to tackle climate change? As a member of the jury, welcome you to today’s case. Synthetic or ‘engineered’ biology is one of the UK government’s priority...

New Life in Old Labs: Repurposed COVID Labs to Enable Marine Discovery in Tenerife

28 November 2023

Tenerife's Radazul Port will welcome two shipping container laboratories to study the unexplored ocean. These laboratories will play a central role in an ambitious mission to explore and catalog ocean life. Ocean Census, the pioneering open network launched by The Nippon Foundation and Nekton, has partnered with OpenCell...

Represent Cambridge at the iGEM Competition - apply before 1 December

20 November 2023

Represent Cambridge University at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. iGEM is an annual competition of high acclaim, with 350 participating teams from 45 countries last year. The competition involves teams of students trying to solve real-world problems using Synthetic Biology tools. Past...

Accelerating Research Impact with Open Technologies 'Stories from Cambridge' Microsite and Report

15 November 2023

The EngBio IRC have worked with researchers and innovators to tell the stories of open technologies emerging from the University of Cambridge and the broader Cambridge tech ecosystem. Our newly published report and website explore sixteen stories of open technogies and examine their current uses and applications, the...

Open Technologies Highlight: In vivo sensing of pH in tomato plants

Can Your Technology Make a Difference?

Open Tech Collaborations Seed Fund Winners Announced

Open Technologies Highlight: OSAIRIS

UK Government publishes a “National Vision for Engineering Biology”

Call for Engineering Biology i-Teams projects for South East Asia

Nesta presents evidence for and against betting on synthetic biology, a powerful emerging technology, to tackle the climate crisis.

New Life in Old Labs: Repurposed COVID Labs to Enable Marine Discovery in Tenerife

Represent Cambridge at the iGEM Competition - apply before 1 December

Accelerating Research Impact with Open Technologies 'Stories from Cambridge' Microsite and Report

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