Controlling the transmission of Zika and other mosquitoe-borne diseases by...
by Gaetan Burgio In the past few weeks, Zika virus infection has become headline news and on February 1st, it was declared as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health...
View ArticleMidsummer Madness: A News Roundup of Synbio Moonshoots
“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” Shakespeare, Twelfth Night In the fast moving field of synthetic biology, things have been speeding up over the last couple of months. Control of infectious...
View ArticleBill Gates on Biotech & Global Health @ ASM Microbe 2016
0000-0003-0319-5416Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, came to Boston last Thursday to open the ASM Microbe 2016 conference. As the wealthiest person in the...
View Article“Building with Biology” Synbio Outreach
0000-0003-0319-5416Recently I got to volunteer again at a “Building with Biology” event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Last year was the first event of its kind and now the program is spreading...
View ArticleCan a new model help governance keep up with synthetic biology?
0000-0003-0319-5416Synthetic biology is moving at a rapid pace, and regulations will need to keep up to allow useful technologies to hit the market while maintaining a high standard of safety. Since...
View ArticleNational academies’s initial report on biodefense & synbio
0000-0003-0319-5416The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are working to develop a report on security concerns around synthetic biology. The committee recently put out its...
View ArticleBook review: ‘A Crack in Creation.’ Jennifer Doudna’s journey of discovery
0000-0003-0319-5416Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an account of her CRISPR discoveries and...
View ArticlePlant genetic editing – a green synbio future?
0000-0002-6828-1000 By Steven Burgess and Iulia Gherman Synthetic biology certainly includes plants, but the field of plant synthetic biology is less developed compared to model heterotrophs or...
View ArticleGM mosquitoes for insect population control: when speculative conclusions...
0000-0002-6828-1000 A recent study published in Scientific Reports studied the aftermath of an insect population control experiment in Brazil. The study’s conclusions have attracted significant...
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