Living Naturally in a Synthetic World
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I'm not all the way to crazy-hippie-living-in-a-cave territory, but I'm pretty close. Here's how you can join me!
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 1:45 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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sustainability:
"we should become more artificial"
Category: bioethics
Everyone's favorite Slovenian philsopher, Slavoj Žižek, discussing his provocative perspective on nature, ecology, biotechnology, and climate change while dumpster diving: via Immanent Discursivity (thanks Nick!)...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
BioCouture
Category: fashion
I don't usually like to post links from BoingBoing because I imagine everyone has already seen this already, but as it is about some of my favorite things (synthetic biology, biomaterials, and fashion) I couldn't resist! Designer Suzanne Lee makes...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 12:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fired Up For iGEM
Category: iGEM
iGEM officially starts for the Harvard team tomorrow for some good old-fashioned fun with BioBricks, arabidopsis, protein-based sweeteners, and shRNA! Our goal is to make a system for genetically engineering plants safely and easily with some hopefully fun and useful...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:12 PM • 3 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
