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• After Re-Engineering Itself, Verdezyne Sets Course to Develop Biofuels and “Green” Industrial Chemicals

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Synthetic Biology , Industrial Chemicals , Biofuels Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: After Carlsbad, CA-based Verdezyne disclosed last month that it plans to raise more than $15 million in venture funding, I arranged to sit down with Damien Perriman, the company’s vice president of business development. As ...
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• Embraer, GE, Azul and Amyris in Renewable Jet Fuel Evaluation Project

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 566
  Amyris engineers microbes to convert sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. Micrograph of fermentation fluids from production of Amyris Renewable Diesel (Nov 2007). Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge. Embraer, General Electric, and Amyris Biotechnologies, a synthetic biology company focused on developing renewable hydrocarbon ...
  3 days ago

• Andrew Hessel’s Singularity University Talk on Synthetic Biology (Video)

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 588
  Want to tinker with DNA? Andrew Hessel is the guy who can explain how and why. Have you ever wished life was more like a video game? Well, Andrew Hessel is here to tell you that your biology is already more like a computer than you know. At his recent talk at Singularity University the genetic engineering guru ...
  5 days ago

• Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous [Interview]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
    We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. It’s easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to quit whining and face it Continued here: Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous [Interview]
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• Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous [Interview]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 894
  We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. Its easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to quit whining and face it. Specter, who covers the science beat for The New Yorker, is pissed off. Forces on both the left and ...
  1 week ago

• Combined food and energy

  
  Professor Douglas Kell's blog — Authority: 107
  Last week’s activities included a two-day meeting of our Strategy Advisory Board , where (unsurprisingly) we concentrated on our upcoming Strategic Plan, as well as looking inter alia at the results of our survey of high-performance computing needs, and at an externally commissioned analysis of the Knowledge and ...
  2 weeks ago

• 4 kingdoms. Via.

  
  anything you can do, i can do meta — Authority: 136
  4 kingdoms. Via .
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• Google Wave be freaky. And, maybe not as useless as I...

  
  anything you can do, i can do meta — Authority: 136
  Google Wave be freaky. And, maybe not as useless as I thought. Above is an explanatory video for a new Google Wave robot, called SynBioWave ; it allows you to upload sequence data and then visualize and compare that data, or show multiple sequence alignment. It’s in a very early beta, but the ease with which it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Optical Cell 2 Duo lac operon: Bridging the gap between Bacteria and Yeast

  
  Fisheye Perspective — Authority: 115
  Students from iGEM Harward team are using the optical communication to create a physically distributed lac operon between a bacteria and an yeast cell which normally occur within the same cell. Idea is to use the principles of synthetic biology to decouple the single cell lac operon events such as ...
  3 weeks ago

• TEDMED Sessions Seek the Patterns in Health Care and Life Sciences That Hold Ideas Together

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Life Sciences , health care , people Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It may be that TEDMED founder Richard Saul Wurman is the Brett Favre of emcees, or perhaps he’s like Al Pacino in Godfather III, who proclaims in exasperation, “Just when I thought I was out—they pull me back in!” But after a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mackenzie Cowells Fascination with Synthetic Biology

  
  Fisheye Perspective — Authority: 115
  Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org , an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. Mackenzie was recently interviewed by MAKE magazine for an ongoing series of video ...
  3 weeks ago

• Future watch

  
  Simplistic Art — Authority: 141
  Drew Endy , an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University on creating life in his lab by combining elements of engineering, chemistry, computer science, and molecular biology. ... “it’s scary as hell, it’s the coolest platform science has ever produced, but the questions ...
  3 weeks ago

• Story of "Synthia" the (theoretical) human-made synthetic microbe

  
  Fisheye Perspective — Authority: 115
  "The Story of Synthia" explains -- in a cartoon -- how some scientists are attempting to create synthetic "life." By replacing the genome of a natural microbe with a human-made genome constructed from synthetic DNA, they hope to give birth to a new, synthetic species -- mycloplasma laboratorium. Original article ...
  4 weeks ago

• SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology

  
  Fisheye Perspective — Authority: 115
  As I mentioned in my previous posts that for next few days we are going to cover various interesting activities related to iGEM 2009 and selected student projects will be featured on the Fisheye Perspective blog. Next in our list is project SynBioWave , the Google Wave extension for synthetic biology developed ...
  4 weeks ago

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