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Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials
10 / 12 / 2020cell metabolismcircular cell-productsmicrofluidicsvideo
Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials What if we could get cells to produce materials for us? Microfluidics is the technology of controlling soft and biological matter at a small scale. Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Baret and his team at the CRPP institute in Bordeaux create chips to ...
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Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products
09 / 12 / 2020artificial photosynthesismetabolismvideo
Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products What if we could transform the harmful CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere into useful products? Plants can filter CO2 from the atmosphere very efficiently, but also very slowly. Using synthetic biology methods, Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb and his team at the Max ...
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The promise of synthetic cells
14 / 09 / 2020video
The promise of synthetic cells Charlotte Koster from the Dutch consortium BaSyC explains how building a synthetic cell from scratch can lead to biological solutions that will make industry more sustainable:
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Charting the way to minimal cells
16 / 07 / 2020origins of lifeworkshop
During the three-day virtual workshop “Reconstituting biology – charting the way to minimal cells”, researchers agreed the complexity of building cells is what makes them so interesting. A group of 35 synthetic cell researchers from three different continents got together virtually at the Lorentz workshop from 29th June till 1st ...
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Reconstituting Biology 2020: Lorentz workshop 29 June - 1 July 2020
29 / 06 / 2020workshop
Date: 29 June – 3 July 2020 Event location: online workshop Description: This workshop aims to reflect on the achievements in bottom-up synthetic biology worldwide and to map future research directions and visions towards – or even away from – the promise of a synthetic cell. Junior and senior researchers working ...
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Issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences about Synthetic Biology
27 / 11 / 2019
This issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences brings together a collection of perspectives and reviews discussing the exciting advances in synthetic biology.
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Synthetic Cell symposium held in Madrid
14 / 11 / 2019
The event kicked off with presentations about the science & technology vision of three of the promotors of the Synthetic Cell project: Marileen Dogterom, Petra Schwille and Manuel Thery. Paul Clarke then delivered an inspirational talk about his work at Ocado Technology, a company that has combined AI and ...
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Marileen Dogterom named Society Fellow of the Biophysical Society
05 / 09 / 2018
Marileen Dogterom named Society Fellow of the Biophysical Society Marileen Dogterom (Bionanoscience) is one of seven people who will be designated as Society Fellows of the Biophysical Society. She is awarded this honor for her pioneering experimental work on elucidating the physical mechanisms that govern assembly and dynamics of cytoskeleton filaments, ...
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1st International Symposium on Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyC)
27 / 06 / 2018
The symposium is fully dedicated to research on the bottom-up assembly of a functioning synthetic cell from its molecular components. Aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers worldwide to present and discuss the latest results in cutting-edge research on the synthetic cell, and its future scientific and technological ...
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Synthetic Cell and Ringberg on STAT
20 / 09 / 2017
An article about the Ringberg workshop and the Synthetic Cell Initiative on STAT. STAT, the online health and life-sciences publication from Boston Globe Media has published last July an article on the Ringberg workshop and the Synthetic Cell Initiative. The article, “From chemicals to life: Scientists try to build cells from ...
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