11/06/2015
Imagine it is 2035.
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22/05/2015
A new report from the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity discusses synthetic biology's impacts on biodiversity and the adequacy of current risk assessment and regulatory schemes in order to assess the impact of th
18/03/2015
Presentations from the workshop "The nuts and bolts of bioengineered systems", organised under the aegis of the SynBio working group of the EC-US Task Force in Biotechnology at the University of Valencia, Spain, are available online.
03/03/2015
The second BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival took place from 23 - 25 October, 2014.
03/03/2015
SYNENERGENE is a citizen dialogue and stakeholder networking project on synthetic biology (SynBio) with 25+ partners, involving stakeholders from science, industry, civil society, policy, art and other areas.
03/03/2015
The annual international Genetically Engineered Machines student competition iGEM is a perfect match with SYNENERGENE.
29/01/2015
Piksel is an electronic music and art festival that takes places every year in the city of Bergen, Norway.
29/01/2015
In December 2013, researchers at Agro Paris Tech (Morgan Meyer) and CNRS (Perig Pitrou) in collaboration with LaPaillase organized a one day workshop entitled “What can do-it-yourself biology do?”.
25/01/2015
Claire Marris’ article, “Synthetic biology’s malaria promises could backfire,” posits that synthetic biologists—by using semi-synthetic artemisinin as a prime example of why synthetic biology is important—are repeating history and, in doing so, re
25/01/2015
Amyris has developed genetic an industrial synthetic biology platform (genetic engineering technologies) that enables modification of the sugar metabolic pathways in microbes, primarily yeast.
25/01/2015
The model of “trading-zones” has been developed to discuss and explore possibilities for translating knowledge and uncertainty into responsible decision making and governance processes.
25/01/2015
Several events related to synthetic biology and Responsible Research and Innovation are organized between January and June 2015. This newsletter just provides a brief overview.
25/01/2015
The second BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival took place from 23 - 25 October, 2014.
22/01/2015
"It was a great pleasure to be there and engage in dialogue with people with so many different backgrounds, unified by their interest in biology and art"
BIO·FICTION Festival Visitor
20/01/2015
Synthetic Biology – Character and Impact
Editors: Bernd Giese, Christian Pade, Henning Wigger, Arnim von Gleich
19/12/2014
Blog and Webpages on Responsible Innovation by René von Schomberg with free downloadable rescources.
14/12/2014
This is a brief description of the project's aims and scope in form of a handy brochure.
21/11/2014
From 21-24 September 2014, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology hosted the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET).
14/11/2014
Recently the Dutch Rathenau Instituut published a report “SynBio Politics. Bringing synthetic biology into debate” calling for a broader opinion formation on the field of synthetic biology.
06/10/2014
This SYNENERGENE workshop on “Responsible Research and Innovation in Synthetic Biology” took place at the Schader-Forum, Darmstadt (Germany), on 23 - 25 June 2014.
04/10/2014
18/09/2014
The workshop Worldviews and Values in Synthetic Biology has featured a student event that has provided a valuable input and opened unexpected
11/07/2014
Christopher Coenen from ITAS/KIT and Franc Mali and Toni Pustovrh from the University of Ljubljana attended the SYNBIOREG symposium in Brnik, Slovenia.
06/06/2014
Members of the Slovenian partner University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, attended the annual conference on Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies, organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and S
04/06/2014
The latest OECD report on synthetic biology dealing with "Emerging Policy Issues in Synthetic Biology" appeared on June 4, 2014.
28/05/2014
Nature special issue on Synbio: a collection of resources
28/05/2014
Interesting article written by Jack Stilgoe on The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/m
16/05/2014
I don't know if you have come across this: a completly RRI by-product of the project WormBoys developed by Valencia Biocampus Team for iGEM 2013. Ten stories about Syn-Bio, in a positive and negative version!!