Researchers at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (aka, BIOFAB) have just announced that they have, in effect, established rules for the first language for engineering gene expression, the layer between the genome and all the dynamic processes of life…
… allowing researchers to engineer the function of DNA more precisely, and to better predict the resultant behavior.
More info: http://biofab.org/content/bootstrapping-biotechnology-engineers-cooperate-realize-precision-grammar-programming-cells
DNA meets DNS. Informatics and Synthetic biology. Excellent talk TEDxEdmonton - @andrewhessel
(Source: youtube.com)
This newly-discovered deep-sea dweller lives 1.5 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Its name is Yoda purpurata, which literally means “purple thing that looks like Yoda”.
When mile and a half below the ocean you live, look as cool, you will not, hmm?
(via Guardian)
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Researchers at Harvard University have made an artificial jellyfish using a sheet of silicone and rat heart cells. Read more at: http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046
(Source: youtube.com)
Synthetic aesthetics: a new discourse between science and design.
Amazing presentation by designer and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg exploring the role of design in a Biotech Revolution.
(Source: poptech.org)
