Biology as a manufacturing technology could well be the key to a more resilient, sustainable development agenda […]Whilst preventing the malign use of such a capacity will be one factor, there are a host of other issues that will need to be address in our national oversight frameworks, including the impact on: energy security; resource …
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/12/17/designing-life-synthetic-biology-and-design Watch the videos, in particular: … which really let me thinking about ‘disruptive’. FYI, according to Wikipedia: Types of Innovation Sustaining An innovation that does not affect existing markets. Evolutionary An innovation that improves a product in an existing market in ways that customers are expecting. (e.g., fuel injection) Revolutionary (discontinuous, radical) An innovation …
I really liked this article, especially: In the middle, between DNA read-in and DNA read-out, is a computing layer that’s seen enormous growth in the availability of useful data. Databases like KEGG, for metabolic pathways, and Genbank, for genetic sequences, codify biological processes in machine terms. Software can instantaneously run through millions of permutations before suggesting a …
Unlike traditional microscopes that use optics to make small objects bigger, this new microscope uses a video camera and image processing to analyze and visualize the changes. It can magnify a variety of interesting and useful phenomena, from blood pulsing under our skin, to vibrations in pipes, engines, and throats, revealing a whole new world …
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1772
Read National and Transnational Security Implications of Big Data in the Life Sciences by AAAS/FBI/UNICRI, 2014 http://www.aaas.org/report/national-and-transnational-security-implications-big-data-life-sciences
Offering scientists control of a wet lab by remote computer. Experiments to order Ryffin, Transcriptic, Emerald Clould Lab http://www.nature.com/news/the-automated-lab-1.16429
I just moved to Seattle to join Dr Klavins lab! Will be working on closed-loop automation in their synbio lab. More info >> KlavinsLab.org
Royal Society, London UK 19th-21st November 2014 Conference on Bio-Chem S&T and Security: Royal Society 19-21st November 2014
First year for the Policy and Practices track! Congrats to all the team competing in iGEM; we saw some amazing work 🙂