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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
Category: synthetic biology
I'm making my way up to SB 5.0 for what promises to be a great conference. If you're going too, come say hi and smell some cheeses during the poster session!...
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Category: research
Last month I wrote about my friend Devin Burrill's paper about synthetic memory in yeast cells. There were a lot of really interesting questions left in the comments, and I asked Devin if she would write a guest post to...
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Category: evolution
The story behind the story of my new PLoS ONE paper, "Towards a Synthetic Chloroplast."
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Category: announcement
Before you get your tickets for SB 5.0 make sure that you'll be in town for the world's first Synthetic Biology Slam!...
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Category: friends
Cells permanently change their behavior in response to temporary changes to the environment, a kind of biological memory that controls processes as important and complex as how stem cells differentiate into specific tissues or how the immune system "remembers" dangerous...
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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...
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Category: friends
What do you get when you combine two of my favorite things, synthetic biology and documentary film? We may never know if Sam and George don't get the funding they need on Kickstarter! I don't usually do this kind of...
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Category: medicine
Evolution connects all living things on earth, from the arsenic tolerant bacteria in the news this week to the human scientists and bloggers chatting about it. Eyes are intricately complex structures made up of many many cells, but even single-celled...
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Category: iGEM
iGEM students are nothing if not creative, fun, and super nerdy. Here is a taste of some of the awesome videos being made by this year's crop, enjoy! Cambridge, with a catchy song about new techniques for joining pieces of...
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Category: silk
There was some big news yesterday in transgenic silk from Notre Dame and the University of Wyoming, where scientists have genetically engineered silkworms to produce silk that is a mixture of spider silk and the regular silkworm stuff. Silkworms produce...
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