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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).

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.

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.

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!

Call for Proposals - BioFabbing: Fabrications and Fabulations

Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes Genome editing: an ethical review

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

Bioluminescence exhibit featured on Design Exchange

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