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Synthetic Biology Leadership Council to hold open meeting on 8 Nov 2017

1 November 2017

The Synthetic Biology Leadership Council provides leadership for the UK’s interests in the rapidly developing field of Synthetic Biology and holds at least one open meeting per year.

Research survey about collaboration in open source hardware projects

24 October 2017

As part of a French-German research project on open source hardware, Robert Mies and Jérémy Bonvoisin (Technische Universität Berlin) are launching a large scale survey about collaboration in open source hardware projects and are looking for respondents.

Low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering

5 October 2017

Former OpenPlant Fellow Dr Fernan Federici, former OpenPlant PDRA Dr Tim Rudge and colleagues have recently published a pre-print for their low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering, supported by the OpenPlant Fund.

Improving processing of softwood to biofuels with synthetic biology

4 October 2017

A new publication from the lab of Prof. Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge in Biotechnology for Biofuels describes work to improve processing of softwood to biofuels using a synthetic biology strategy to express and assay conifer cell wall synthesis enzymes.

Biotechnology for Biofuels - a Strategy to Improve Converting Plant Biomass into Biofuel

4 October 2017

Removal of glucuronic acid from xylan is a strategy to improve the conversion of plant biomass to sugars for bioenergy

A Major Advance in Plastid Transformation

27 September 2017

Professor Julian Hibberd (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) has summarised advances towards efficient plastid transformation in Arabidopsis thaliana as part of a new paper in Plant Physiology

Register now to Exhibit at the Biomaker Fayre

25 September 2017

Bring your demos! If you have an interesting project using open technologies, created as part of the Biomaker Challenge, or independently, you are invited to exhibit it at the Biomaker Fayre during Open Technology Week.

Call for Exhibitors for the Biomaker Fayre Exhibitors at Open Technology Week

24 September 2017

Cafe Synthetique tackles DNA-based Information Storage and DNA Synthesis.

19 September 2017

Cafe Synthetique commanded a full house with plenty of interesting discussion around Pierre Murat's research on DNA-based information storage and Jiahao Huang's work on long chain DNA synthesis.

New Royal Society Report: Synthetic Biology - does industry get it?

13 September 2017

On 8 February 2017, the Royal Society hosted a conference that posed the question Synthetic biology – does industry get it? It brought together nearly 200 experts from academia, industry and government to provide an honest and open appraisal of how industry is using synthetic biology, acknowledging successes and strengths but also looking at what barriers still need to be overcome.

Synthetic Biology Leadership Council to hold open meeting on 8 Nov 2017

Research survey about collaboration in open source hardware projects

Low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering

Improving processing of softwood to biofuels with synthetic biology

Biotechnology for Biofuels - a Strategy to Improve Converting Plant Biomass into Biofuel

A Major Advance in Plastid Transformation

Register now to Exhibit at the Biomaker Fayre

Call for Exhibitors for the Biomaker Fayre Exhibitors at Open Technology Week

Cafe Synthetique tackles DNA-based Information Storage and DNA Synthesis.

New Royal Society Report: Synthetic Biology - does industry get it?

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