Great Balls of Evolution
Category: bacteria
cooperation + metabolism + hydrogen + electricity + evolution = AWESOME
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:22 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Energy, Armpits, and Octopodes
Category: bioenergy
I had a great conversation with Maggie Koerth-Baker from BoingBoing for bloggingheads.tv Science Saturday. We talked about all sorts of sciency stuff, including her upcoming book on the challenges of renewable energy, synthetic biology, the similarities between cheese and the...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:16 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Peepee Power
Category: bioenergy
There's a terrific new article in New Scientist about some of the ways scientists are working on turning pee into energy. There's a lot of pee in the world all going to waste, often at huge cost to the environment...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:42 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Biology, Energy, Safety
Category: biosafety
Biosafety has been on everyone's mind this week after the announcement of the J. Craig Venter Institute's successful transplantation of a synthetic genome. What horrible pathogen will future bioengineers be able to design? What unforeseeable environmental catastrophe will befall us...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Earth Day: Sustainably Achieving Sustainability
Category: sustainability
Many people in synthetic biology, including myself and much of my lab, are working on using biology to make things more efficiently, renewably, and sustainably. Being able to make plastic replacing biomaterials, chemicals, medicines, and fuels in living cells from...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:07 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hydrogenosomes and the living matryoshka doll
Category: symbiosis
My two great thesis project loves are hydrogen and symbiosis, and as such, the recent news of a multicellular organism that lives in a completely oxygen free environment and gets its energy from hydrogenosomes instead of mitochondria is totally fascinating....
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Flesh Eating Robots
Category: artificial life
Because of my recent interest in autonomous, biologically inspired robots, my friend Tami sent me some fascinating links about designs and concepts for future flesh eating robots. From New Scientist, furniture that captures vermin and uses the biomass to power...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:38 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Agapakis et. al.
Category: papers
My paper, "Insulation of a synthetic hydrogen metabolism circuit in bacteria" just came out in the Journal of Biological Engineering! And it's open access! We designed a metabolic circuit in bacteria that produces hydrogen (a potentially useful fuel) from natural...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 9:40 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Open Source Hydrogen Cars
Category: bioenergy
Riversimple, a small UK-based company, has designed a tiny, relatively cheap, and remarkably open-source hydrogen fuel cell car. The car will not be available for sale, but people will be able to lease it, with the lease agreement including maintenance,...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
