- Salt & Power Shakers
- The economic and social life of synthetic biology
- Marchantia in Kyoto
- Synthetic Biology - Think Multicellular
- GPU accelerated biochemical network simulation.
- Press coverage for the Cambridge iGEM team
- Biology at Cambridge
- Growth in liverworts of the Marchantiales is promoted by epiphytic methylobacteria.
- Genetic changes accompanying the domestication of Pea
- Hack an Air Freshener into an Remote Camera Trigger [DIY]
- Buying Guide: Best cheap DX11 graphics card: 10 tested
- Planon releases credit card-sized scanner for receipts
- Players control real microorgansims in 'biotic video games'
- CompuLab introduces its smallest, most energy efficient mini-PC to date
- Disposable microfluidic devices created using regular wax paper
- MSI AMD Fusion Brazos Mini-ITX E350IA-E45 is now available in Japan
- Mussels inspire self-healing sticky gel
- Pentel Airpen Mini now Compatible with Android Devices
- Built your own private network on the Go with Planex latest 3G Wireless Router
- DreamPlug offers compact, low power, performance computing
- PFU Fujitsu introduced the ultimate document scanner, the N1800
- Hydrogel used to create precise new biochemical sensor
- 80 Free and Awesome Photoshop Brushes
- Giant Knitted Squid
- Nitrogen fixation by marine cyanobacteria.
- Peptide signalling in the rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
- Auxin conjugates: their role for plant development and in the evolution of land plants.
- Illustrated anatomy of Gamera and foes
- Pickle Toothpaste
- Edible Giant Toasted Leafcutter Ants
- Flypaper Clock Eats Flies, Uses Their Bodies for Energy
- New E. chromi video
- Positions at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK
- iGEM2011 recruitment
- Dynamics in the mixed microbial concourse.
- Making classic frequency counters into Nixie clocks
- Xi3 modular computer to make global debut at CES 2011
- The 4x4x4 LED Cube Using an Arduino
- Researchers develop genuine 3D camera
- Microbial Cell Factories: Engineering the cell surface display of cohesins for assembly of cellulosome-inspired enzyme complexes on Lactococcus lactis
- Presidential Commission reports on Synthetic Biology
- Cambridge presentation 2010
- iGEM2010 Jamboree
- Improved BioBrick components for bioluminescence
- Cambridge team at the iGEM2010 Jamboree
- University of Cambridge team wins iGEM synthetic biology competition
- Reversal of an epigenetic switch governing cell chaining in Bacillus subtilis by protein instability.
- App Magnets – upgrade your fridge with some app-etising icons
- Hackintosh In A Cardboard Box
- This Lung-On-A-Chip
- Pickle Adhesive Bandages
- USB Mix Tape
- Monster illustrations from Ultraman sonosheet book
- 15 Cool Stickers for your iPhone
- Bacteria are able to extend psuedo-legs and walk upright
- Japanese flower has the largest known genome
- Gibson Assembly Song
- DIYbio articles in Nature
- Gibson Assembly Song
- In Living Color: Bacterial Pigments as an Untapped Resource in the Classroom and Beyond
- Lego Shaped Ice Cube Tray
- Bacterial physiology: Bacillus takes the temperature
- Microfluidic approaches for systems and synthetic biology.
- GreenPhylDB v2.0: comparative and functional genomics in plants.
- The roots of a new green revolution.
- The Kno: A giant double-screen tablet to replace giant textbooks
- NVIDIA Fermi-Class Quadro GPUs
- Homemade laser microscope reveals water's murky secrets
- Verbatim launches Clip-It USB drive
- Synthetic Biology Faculty position
- SynBio2010 course in Synthetic Biology at Cambridge
- Synthetic Biology worth $4.5B by 2015
- Naked Scientist interview
- Royal Society: Future Technologies
- 2nd-generation GM traits
- NYT article about iGEM2009
- Synthetic Biology at the Wellcome Trust
- Giant Plant Cells
- Glass microbiology
- Endnote X3
- LEGO-sized hole punch
- Glowing Toyama Squid USB Memory Stick
- Green Pins
- Bacterial rainbow
- Synthetic operon for violacein production
- Cambridge team wins Grand Prize for iGEM2009
- The scatalog: E. chromi, pigment and poo
- Grand Prize for Cambridge iGEM2009 team
- Cambridge presentation at the iGEM2009 Jamboree
- Wellcome Trust iGEM2010 studentships
- Cambridge iGEM2009 team
- Synthetic Biology Project
- The iGEM Project
- RS Interface SynBio issue
- steam-powered dragon tin toy
- Magcloud: On Demand Magazine Printing
- RAE Synthetic Biology Report 2009
- Arduino Mega
- Phytocomp - new computing tools for plant science
- Computational Biology at Microsoft Research in Cambridge
The iGEM2010 Jamboree is here again, running Nov 6th-8th. The Cambridge team presented the E.glowli story, showing a set of BioBricks to allow generation of bioluminescence in a wide range of colours which have applications both as reporters for biosensors and as natural light sources.
A number of strategies were used to extend the use of firefly luciferase: (i) codon optimisation for increased light output, (ii) use of a luciferin regenerating enzyme, and (iii) mutagenesis to create a number of different colours.
Light producing systems from Vibrio fischeri were also explored. The team created the first BioBrick to emit light in normal E. coli strains without the addition of any external substrate.
The team made extensive use of Gibson Assembly to manufacture these parts, and have submitted an RFC to the BioBricks Foundation to help promote use of this technique.
In addition, new software tools were built. (i) Gibthon Construct Designer allows the user to enter a series of BioBrick or GenBank IDs in a specific order and computes the appropriate primers for Gibson Assembly. (ii) BioBrick → GenBank allows parts from the registry to be downloaded in .gb format, making them compatible with a wide range of biological software. (iii) The Ligation Calculator is a small calculator to help you work out the proportions to use for ligation in BioBrick assembly without having to worry about units.
Finally, the E.glometer is a cheap, easily built, piece of electronics for measuring bioluminescence. It allows scientists without access to expensive plate readers to measure bacterial light output and has potential applications in quantitative biosensors.