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GOSH, that’s handy: open-science hardware

29 September 2016

A feature article from Tobias Wenzel and Robin Lamboll (both Department of Physics) on Global Open Science Hardware and its potential for research and innovation.

Synthetic Biology at Cambridge Science Festival gets a special mention at Cambridge BID Awards 2016

29 September 2016

The Plant and Life Sciences Marquee was a roaring success at Cambridge Science Festival, scooping a prize at the Cambridge BID awards Awards 2016. OpenPlant's synthetic biology stand was highly rated by the public mystery shoppers and got a special mention in their final report!

#100Kbio challenge aims to create 100,000 new bioengineers in 100 days!

20 September 2016

Amino Labs and The BioBuilder Educational Foundation challenge you to become a Virtual Bioengineer!

iGEM Update: Using low-cost, well-documented, open-source hardware for synthetic biology

26 August 2016

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

Could Open Research benefit Cambridge University researchers? An Open Technology Week event report

5 August 2016

The Office of Scholarly Communication report on their event as part of Open Technology Week, where 50 researchers can together to discuss Open Research ideas and moving beyond compliance with funders’ policies on Open Access and research data sharing.

Cambridge Consultants join in supporting Cambridge-JIC iGEM Team to engineer chloroplasts

29 July 2016

The Cambridge-JIC iGEM Team consists of ten undergraduates from Engineering and Natural Sciences working for 10 weeks this summer to engineer future synthetic biology tools and applications. Cambridge Consultants are one of the group of supporters helping them to deliver.

CERN launches survey to assess impact of open hardware as a knowledge transfer tool

11 July 2016

The SynBio SRI has funded several projects working on open hardware for research and education. We are very interested in finding out more about the impact of openness on knowledge transfer and colleagues at CERN have recently announced a survey gathering data on just this point.

OpenPlant Forum and Industry-Academia Networking Event, 25th - 27th July 2016

Monday, 25 July, 2016 - 16:00 to Wednesday, 27 July, 2016 - 15:30

The OpenPlant Forum is the annual meeting of the BBSRC-EPSRC funded OpenPlant Synthetic Biology Research Centre . Funded under the Synthetic Biology for Growth programme, the Centre promotes interdisciplinary exchange, open technologies for innovation and responsible innovation for sustainable agriculture and biotechnology...

Bioluminescence exhibit featured on Design Exchange

30 June 2016

Bernardo Pollak, Victoria Geaney and Anton Kan created the Lo Lamento exhibition as part of The E-Luminate Festival in February with funding from the SynBio Fund. The work features on art magazine Design Exchange this month with some beautiful photos and videos of the installation!

Hackaday Prize - category 'Citizen scientist' open 30 May - 11 July

Monday, 30 May, 2016 - 10:00 to Monday, 11 July, 2016 - 17:00

This Hackaday challenge is about expanding the frontiers of knowledge. Create something new, study something undiscovered, or replicate and verify scientific studies. Need an example? Build a graphene supercapacitor, study the effects of a behavior, build an open source instrumentation device.

GOSH, that’s handy: open-science hardware

Synthetic Biology at Cambridge Science Festival gets a special mention at Cambridge BID Awards 2016

#100Kbio challenge aims to create 100,000 new bioengineers in 100 days!

iGEM Update: Using low-cost, well-documented, open-source hardware for synthetic biology

Could Open Research benefit Cambridge University researchers? An Open Technology Week event report

Cambridge Consultants join in supporting Cambridge-JIC iGEM Team to engineer chloroplasts

CERN launches survey to assess impact of open hardware as a knowledge transfer tool

OpenPlant Forum and Industry-Academia Networking Event, 25th - 27th July 2016

Bioluminescence exhibit featured on Design Exchange

Hackaday Prize - category 'Citizen scientist' open 30 May - 11 July

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