Synthetic Biology News
We were recently shocked to learn that Starbucks’ strawberry drinks are colored with ‘carmine’ – a dye made from crushed parasitic beetles. Those of us on an insect-free diet can now breathe a sigh of relief, as Starbucks just announced that their products from now on will get that extra splash of red from the vegan-friendly Tomat-O-Red dye. The all-natural color is produced by...
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Publication Date: 2012 Mar 27 PMID: 22454498 Authors: Callura, J. M. - Cantor, C. R. - Collins, J. J. Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A A key next step in synthetic biology is to combine simple circuits into higher-order systems. In this work, we expanded our synthetic riboregulation platform into a genetic switchboard that independently controls the expression of multiple genes in parallel....
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Lego Mindstorms in the Lab Researchers at Cambridge University are building artificial bone in the lab, and they're doing so with what might be considered an unorthodox partner: Lego. The tedious process of building up a sample of artificial bone requires a lot of repetitive dipping of samples into various substances, rinsing, and repeating. So to automate sample creation, the...
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A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting leading scientists’ reflections on their work, society and culture. Michael Eisen Michael Eisen is a molecular biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of...
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The State of the 2012 Advanced Biofuels Industry: " Intrigued by the prospects for advanced biofuels, but lack the time to wade through a 200-page industry forecast? Our 15-Minute "state of the industry primer" presented this week at World Biofuels Markets, may be just the right size." (Via Bioenergy News - RenewableEnergyAccess.com.)
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The Firefly Squid (Watasenia scintillans) inhabits the Western Pacific and is famously found in Toyama Bay, Japan. The 3-inch long creatures employ bioluminescent glands in each tentacle to attract and hunt prey. Surprisingly, this is the only species of of cephalopod that is suspected of having color vision. [Sparkling Enope Wiki via Buzzfeed - Composite Image (clockwise from left):...
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As an adult, Alan Turing proved to be a genius. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in computer science. But when he was a teenager, Turing was less impressive. Here’s what his English instructor said about his work: Without being lazy, he seems to do his work rather perfunctorily. I should like to see rather more life in him. And his math teacher: Works well. He is still...
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  Are you working for the fastest shrinking industry in the United States? You are, if you're working for a newspaper according to this study by LinkedIn and the Council of Economic Advisors. The fastest-growing industries include renewables (+49.2%), internet (+24.6%), online publishing (+24.3%), and e-learning (+15.9%). Fastest-shrinking industries were...
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Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has now successfully helped more than one project earn over $1 million, turning the traditional model of media production on its ear. What if we could do the same thing for science? With government spending for the sciences on the decline, entrepreneur Matt Salzberg saw an opportunity. He'd create a crowdfunding site for scientists, where researchers could get...
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The flavors and fragrance (F&F) market seem to be benefiting from renewable chemicals developments from players such as Amyris, Allylix and Blue Marble Biomaterials...and chemical firms also supplying the F&F market are taking notice. BASF announced on Monday that its venture capital business has invested $13.5m in Allylix, which BASF said allows them to leverage their aroma chemicals,...
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Signaling pathways lie at the heart of cellular responses to environmental cues. The ability to reconstruct specific signaling modules ex vivo allows us to study their inherent properties in an isolated environment, which in turn enables us to elucidate fundamental design principles for such motifs. This synthetic biology approach for analyzing natural, well-defined signaling modules will help to...
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Depletion of oil reserves and the associated effects on climate change have prompted a re-examination of the use of plant biomass as a sustainable source of organic carbon for the large-scale production of chemicals and materials. While initial emphasis has been placed on biofuel production from edible plant sugars, the drive to reduce the competition between crop usage for food and non-food...
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years. Vostok is the largest in a sub-glacial web of more than 200 lakes that are hidden 4 km beneath the ice. Some of the lakes formed when the continent was much warmer and still connected...
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Attention student designers: The 2012 James Dyson Award is now open for entry, seeking solutions from design or engineering students from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK and the US. If you students were to enter most world-class design competitions, you'd undoubtedly...
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"North America is at an inflection point in managing organic materials. Just as paper, metal and plastics were the darlings of the recycling industry a couple decades ago, our society is defining a new relationship with organic materials: one that harnesses the full carbon, energy and nutrient potential of organics. In order to help shape that new relationship, industry leaders are cultivating...
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The promises of modern biotechnology hinge upon the hope that we can understand microscopic cellular complexity and in doing so create novel function. In this regard, the fields of systems and synthetic biology are important for accelerating both our understanding of biological systems and our ability to quantitatively engineer cells. At the nexus of these two fields is a unique synergy that can...
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  KLARI REIS SCI ART BY ROBERT T. GONZALEZ Psychedelic Petri dishes turn lab work into a freakout session Can you guess the subject of this photograph? It's a bloodshot alien eyeball! Just kidding, although all that red totally resembles vasculature don't you think? Don't worry, the real answer is just as awesome: believe it or not, this is actually a Petri dish, created by artist Klari...
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The United States has long been recognized as one of the most scientifically productive countries on Earth. But when you're discussing progress, where you've been is not nearly as important as a) where you are today, and b) where you stand to go from there What this presentation from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes abundantly clear is that America's scientific future is shaping up...
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It looks like a good start for 2012 with several companies closing some good funding this month. New Zealand-based LanzaTech announced this week that it has bagged a total of US $55.8m in its series C round of financing led by the Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund. New investors include PETRONAS Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd and Dialog Group. Existing investors such as Khosla Ventures, Qiming...
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Synthetic biosystems for the production of high-value plant metabolites.: "Publication Date: 2011 Dec 29 PMID: 22209518 Authors: Facchini, P. J. - Bohlmann, J. - Covello, P. S. - De Luca, V. - Mahadevan, R. - Page, J. E. - Ro, D. K. - Sensen, C. W. - Storms, R. - Martin, V. J. Journal: Trends Biotechnol Plants display an immense diversity of specialized metabolites, many of which have been...
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