It’s time we empower everybody with biotechnology
Biobuilder in the States (high school) To “empower everybody with biotechnology,” she believes, will create an “interested and engaged citizenry” able to address and resolve problems relevant to their lives. […] Biotechnology now stands where computational technology did in the 1980s. Already, synthetic biologists and biotechnicians are revolutionizing fields from medicine to agriculture—not just in …
Why women leave academia
https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia? The participants in the study identify many characteristics of academic careers that they find unappealing: the constant hunt for funding for research projects is a significant impediment for both men and women. But women in greater numbers than men see academic careers as all-consuming, solitary and as unnecessarily competitive. Both men and women PhD …
SimLife
That looks like (it was) fun A complex game in which you can create your own ecosystems, animals or vegetables, then watch them eat, evolve, mate, or die. http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/simlife
Changing the Nature of Nature
Explorations with Bryan Johnson | Synthetic Biology
ebioome 2016 CoMotion Innovation Fund winner
More to come thanks to https://www.ee.washington.edu/news/2016/EEStudentsandFacultyReceive2016CoMotionInnovationFund.html (replace student by postdoc ^^)
Why Kickstarter’s Glowing Plant Left Backers in the Dark
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601884/why-kickstarters-glowing-plant-left-backers-in-the-dark/
Myconnect: interspecies connector
(en) https://projectmyconnect.wordpress.com Myconnect: interface humain-champignon (fr) http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/rue89-culture/2016/04/15/bio-art-connectee-a-interface-humain-champignon-263763
Another controversial attempt of whether gene-modified people are possible.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601235/chinese-researchers-experiment-with-making-hiv-proof-embryos/ His team collected more than 200 one-cell embryos and attempted to alter their DNA to install a gene that protects against HIV infection. The study, published two days ago in an obscure reproductive journal, was first spotted by reporters at Nature. The scientists cautioned that they believe making actual genetically modified babies should be “strictly prohibited”—but perhaps only …
Genome Editing listed as a WMD threat by DNI
Research in genome editing conducted by countries with different regulatory or ethical standards than those of Western countries probably increases the risk of the creation of potentially harmful biological agents or products. Given the broad distribution, low cost, and accelerated pace of development of this dual-use technology, its deliberate or unintentional misuse might lead to …
Gro for snowflake yeast
Gro is a software written in C++ using QT. Gro is a programming language and a 2D simulation environment for cells. The physics and front end has been implemented for e.coli. Specification and simulation of synthetic multicelled behaviors. Jang SS(1), Oishi KT, Egbert RG, Klavins E. Author information: (1)Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, …