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Synthetic Biology Project Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (http://www.synbioproject.org) The Synthetic Biology Project was established as an initiative of the Foresight & Governance Program of the�Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.�The Project aims to foster informed public and policy discourse concerning the advancement of synthetic biology...
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The iGEM Project by Ellis O'Neill The Triple Helix, Cambridge 800th Anniversary Edition 2009 A report on participation in the Cambridge 2008 iGEM team. Ellis describes what it was like to participate in this exciting and challenging project in Cambridge.� Cambridge's team consisted of undergraduates from diverse academic backgrounds. The aim of their project was to produce...
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Special Synthetic Biology issue by the Royal Society Interface and IET Synthetic Biology Journals. This special joint issue contains a collection of articles that describe efforts to establish improved software and biological tools for the design and assembly of synthetic DNA-based programmes.� This synthetic biology approach is arising as a result of the collision between science and...
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Magcloud: On Demand Magazine Printing   Service for online submission of magazines as PDFs, and on demand printing at 20c per page. Print copies of magazines can be mailed to the US, Canada and the UK. HP Labs has a new print on demand service in beta. Called Magcloud, it’s an economical way for niche publishers to print small runs of magazines. The setup could not be any easier....
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Royal Academy of Engineering launches 'Synthetic Biology: scope, applications and implications' May 2009: A report launched by the Royal Academy of Engineering highlights an emerging but critical new field of innovation and technology that has potential for major societal benefit and wealth creation in such areas as healthcare, energy and the environment. Synthetic biology - the insertion of...
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Arduino Mega From: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMega   Overview The Arduino Mega is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega1280 (datasheet). It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button....
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Phytocomp - new computing tools for plant science We are a group of collaborators from the Schools of Computing and Civil Engineering at the University of Dundee, the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and the Environment-Plant Interactions Programme at SCRI in Dundee.    We are developing a series of computational and modelling tools for use in plant science...
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Computational Biology at Microsoft Research in Cambridge Research centre for the application and development of computational methods and tools for modeling and analyzing complex biological systems. "Computational modelling of biological systems is becoming increasingly common as we try to understand biological phenomena in their full complexity. In order to meet this challenge we...
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Open source hardware 2008 The MAKE: guide to open source hardware projects in 2008 from: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/_draft_open_source_hardwa.html What is open source hardware? Briefly, these are projects that creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the...
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News from the Cambridge Network Information from the Cambridge Network with the latest science and technology development news about from Cambridge - including news about biotechnology ventures. 
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iGEM 2008: Novice Bioengineers Get Their Freak On � A recent iGEM judge reflects on spontaneous dance parties and the future of molecular machines. From Seed Magazine by�JASON KELLY�• Posted December 4, 2008 04:27 PM iGEM 2008 teams made their mark on the tagged-up sign-in chalkboard. Click to enlarge. Credit: David Appleyard/iGEM In 1973,...
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Plastic Logic e-reader According to Plastic Logic, while digital e-readers are likely to experience “explosive growth” during 2009, the majority of current devices are centred on personal, leisure-based reading, which is apparently leaving a sizeable business-shaped gap in the market that Plastic Logic firmly plans to exploit. More pointedly, using this week’s DEMOfall 08 technology...
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High Speed Photography using the Arduino Using a laser and sensor to create an electronic trip wire, this high tech photographer used the Arduino programmer to capture high speed pictures of liquid droplets, creating this outstanding collection of photographs.  His photos can be seen below, and you can learn how to make your own with the full tutorial and project code.  Some low priced...
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Visitor's guide to Cambridge Visit Cambridge: Online guide to Cambridge compiled by the Cambridge City Council, with lots of useful information such as maps, accomodation guides, details of walks and tours, events, pubs and restaurants. (http://www.visitcambridge.org)
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Graduate Studies at Cambridge The University of Cambridge has attracted many of the very best minds since 1209, when a group of scholars left Oxford to set up a new institution in Cambridge. Today the University has grown to around 17,500 students (7,000 of whom are graduate students), and 3,000 teaching and administrative staff. Of the graduate students, 50 per cent come from overseas, and...
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Emergence:�A Foundation for Synthetic Biology in Europe Synthetic�biology has emerged as a very recent but highly promising approach to�re-organizing the scientific biological endeavor by integrating central�elements of engineering design. By applying the tool box of engineering�disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering and�computer...
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First Bacillus Standards Working Group Meeting Friday 16 January 2009 a SynBioStandards Network event  School of Computing Science University of Newcastle A one-day workshop in Newcastle in January 2009, to bring together researchers interested in developing standards for using B. subtilis - a major new interest in the UK Synthetic Biology community, due to the potential benefits of the...
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synthetic biology standards network  :  standards and characterisation in synthetic biology The SynBioStandards Network is an innovative and interdisciplinary network for UK academics working in synthetic biology. Pulling together researchers from the worlds of engineering, biological sciences, computer science and the social sciences, the Network aims to create a space for them to share...
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iPhone Apps - NumberKey turns your iPhone into a numeric Keypad Check out this cool iPhone App from Balmuda Design, called NumberKey, which lets you turn your iPhone into a numeric keypad. Now you can ad a numeric keypad to your MacBook or MacBook Pro, with this cool app which is available from the iPhone App store for $1.99. It comes with four different skins, including black on...
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Toast Bandages If you like the toast? The Toast Bandages($5; Box), you may like. "Toast is much more than just a side order. Put one of these Toast Bandages on any minor wound to experience for yourself the incredible healing power of toast!
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Soap Grenade The grenade soap ($8) by Etsy user stinkybomb. Available in many colors. "Cast from an actual demilled WWII steel body Grenade The grenade was cast in a 2 part silicone mold so it holds all of the detail of the original." http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16640030
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Swiss Chocolate Knife I like classic swiss army knife, but this Swiss Chocolate Knife, Cool or not, If you love it? The only swiss army knife, you can take it to the airplane. This delectable Swiss Chocolate Knife($3.25) is made of the finest Swiss chocolate, and is filled with hazelnut praline. Featuring the Victorinox Swiss Army logo, this fine confection is modeled after the Swiss Army...
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Papercraft Turkey Dinner The Thanksgiving, you can do your Papercraft Turkey Dinner, check out this Papercraft Turkey Dinner (PDF). It looks so real.  [ link ] - the original site  [ link ] - Assembly Instructions.
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Miracle Fruit Tablets Sucking a lemon and washing it down with a glass of vinegar makes about as  much sense as ordering a tripe milkshake with your tuna doughnut. But what if you could make wincingly sour flavours taste deliciously sweet? It's easy with Miracle Fruit Tablets.  The Miracle Berry: made from natural berries native to West Africa, these taste-twisting pills contain a rogue...
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Wilting flower dies as your energy use blooms If powering up your amp and monster Freesat TV leaves your neighbours in blackout misery, this new energy monitor could be for you. Dubbed the Wilting Flower, it's a visual reminder of how much electricity you're guzzling at any one moment. When you're using very little juice, it's a perky little flower with its petals open, but as you use...
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tikitag: RFID for your applications From Crave: we're huge fans of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Oyster cards have made our commutes less painful, RFID passports are promising to cut queues at airports, and the data logged by our office keys give us alibis when we're accused of crimes we didn't commit -- true story. So it's no wonder we got excited when...
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Predatory bacterial swarm uses rippling motion to reach prey Image shows swarm of M. xanthus bacteria (left) invading a colony of prey bacteria (right). The rippling pattern is the highly organized behavior of thousands of M. xanthus cells working in concert to digest the prey. Credit: John Kirby, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Like something from a horror movie, the swarm...
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Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks. Typically, the outcome of biologically engineered unit operations cannot be controlled a priori due to the incorporation of ad hoc design into complex natural systems. To mitigate this problem, synthetic biology presents a systematic approach to standardizing biological components for the purpose of increasing their programmability and...
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30. CatCam
CatCam DIY Kit Mr. Lee's CatCam - he built a portable camera and attached it to his outdoor cat so that it would take photos automatically throughout the day, and when the cat returned home, he downloaded the pictures to see what the cat (Mr. Lee) had been up to. Turns out, this cat is a professional photographer. And, even more amazingly, everyone else's cats are pro photogs too. Who knew?...
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KAUST-Cambridge Academic Exchange Alliance A $25M Academic Excellence Alliance has been established between the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the University of Cambridge. In 2008 and 2009, as part of an Academic Excellence Alliance agreement between KAUST and the University of Cambridge, the initial stages of the KAUST faculty search will be conducted by...
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iGEM2008 Jamboree at MIT� 1200 team members and 800 attendees met at MIT for presentations by the 84 teams from 21 countries who participated in iGEM2008. Congratulations to the Slovenia team who took away the BIOBRICK Grand Prize (see below). �Moments before the award ceremony, there was some consternation as the BIOBRICK prize had gone missing from it's pedestal. The work of...
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High resolution optical microscopy for plants The last twenty years have seen a revolution in the application of optical techniques to the study of biological systems. This largely due to the development of highly specific fluorescent labelling methods, and optical techniques such as confocal laser scanning microscopy. For example, different coloured fluorescent proteins are now used...
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Computer models of plant tissue growth and morphogenesis Cells within a plant meristem form a complex system, and clearly possess self-organising properties. However, there are few methods available for modelling the physical relationships and information exchange between these cells in a biologically relevant way. We have developed new software tools for dynamically modelling cellular...
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Image analysis techniques for intact tissues Classical botanical microtechniques can be adapted for modern laser scanning confocal microscopy, to allow deep optical sectioning of intact plant tissues. The resulting large datasets can be visualised and converted to simple numerical descriptions of cell arrangement, shape and connectivity using 3D segmentation software.
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Teaching material for Plant Development and Biotechnology Link to handouts, slides and original references in PDF format for a variety of different courses on plant development and biotechnology that are given by Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge. While some illustrative material originates from our own lab, the the bulk of the material is culled from published sources. Additional...
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SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge Computers form an important part of modern scientific research and there is high flux of new technologies and approaches that continually fuel new developments in this field. There is a large, motivated community of workers in Cambridge who are doing exciting work with advanced computer hardware and software. However the work is organised in...
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The cheaposcope Development of a low cost fluorescence microscope for teaching. Over the last decade, biofluorescent proteins have revolutionised the study of biological processes. The ease of use of these fluorescent markers makes them especially suitable for use in teaching. However, instruments for fluorescence imaging are generally expensive. I've experimented with recent developments in...
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Microanatomy of Plant Tissues  A gallery of confocal microscopy images by Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge. A wide variety of staining techniques has been adopted for plant specimens over the past 150 years. Many of the synthetic dyes used for plant microtechniques are highly fluorescent and many classical histological techniques unintentionally produce specimens that are highly...
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BioBrick compatible vectors for Bacillus Integration Vector BBa_K090403: The vector integrates into the chromosome and does not have a replication origin in Bacillus. Chromosomal integration is required for acquired antibiotic resistance. Shuttle Vector BBa_K090401/2: contain origins of replication that allow episomal growth in E. coli and B. subtilis. Constructed by the Cambridge iGEM2008...
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Tools for Arabidopsis thaliana Arabidopsis plants grow quickly, produce prolific seed, and are easy to transform. Its genome is completely sequenced and a large variety of experimental tools and genetic resources are available. The root meristem grows indeterminately, has a simple and transparent 3D architecture, and can be induced to form de novo in adult tissues. We have developed a...
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Coleochaete as a model system for plant morphogenesis This genus of green algae shows some of the earliest and simplest features of multicellular plant growth. Haploid zoospores initiate the growth of discoid multicellular colonies. The colonies adhere to the substrate and grow as a cell monolayer. The circular morphology of the colonies is maintained by precisely coordinated sequences of...
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New BioBrick encoding an improved fluorescent protein Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) offers efficient and convenient means of visualising the dynamic process of gene expression and of obtaining readout of the current state of complex gene regulatory networks - features of major interest for synthetic biology. Stefan Milde, working in the Haseloff Lab at Cambridge as part of iGEM2008  has...
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IET Synthetic Biology Journal Synthetic Biology is a new interdisciplinary endeavour which involves the recruitment of engineering principles to biology. Simple biological elements can be adopted as reusable, components, which are well characterised and can be used for the construction of more complex devices and systems. The approach allows the biological application of engineering concepts...
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Synthetic Biology and engineering of plant systems. Synthetic Biology is an emerging field that employs engineering principles for constructing genetic systems. The approach is based on the use of well characterised and reusable components, and numerical models for the design of biological circuits – in a way that has become routine in other fields of engineering. This has proved a more...
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Plant Visions 100 years of plant imaging in Cambridge An exhibition of images to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Plant Sciences laboratories in 1904. Curated by Beverley Glover and Jim Haseloff
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Overview of the Cambridge iGEM2008 project Since the�emergence of Synthetic Biology, bacteria have been engineered to perform a wide variety of simple tasks. They can be made to express proteins, respond to their environment and communicate primitively with each other. A key goal for the field is to create a communicating, organised and differentiated population of bacteria that could be...
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Prize Studentships for iGEM2009 Studentships are available for Cambridge students wishing to take Part II courses in Plant Sciences, Genetics and Biochemistry:��2000 stipend over the summer plus a trip to Boston. For more information and application details: email Jim Haseloff at [email protected] Last year, students of Biology, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering grappled with DNA...
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The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and...
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The Registry of Standard Parts at MIT  With BioBrick parts from Cambridge iGEM teams: iGEM2005, iGEM2006, iGEM2007, iGEM2008 and the Haseloff Lab and new Bacillus subtilis strains and key parts  (http://partsregistry.org/) 
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