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Synbio News • 12/30/08
Students, Scientists Build Biological ‘Machines’
Student participants in the 2008 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition crafted biological “machines,” or living organisms, using original combinations of DNA and other organic material to help tackle environmental and health problems. PBS NewsHour
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Synbio News • 12/27/08
Biohackers attempt to unstitch the fabric of life
Allegedly, thousands of Americans are “biohacking” to genetically engineer organisms in their living rooms or garages. One such experimenter is attempting to “rewire the DNA of yogurt bacteria so that they will glow green to signal the presence of melamine”… Times Online
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Synbio News • 12/15/08
Opinion: Synthetic biology is a key to energy independence
Barack Obama recently pledged to establish a $150 billion “Apollo project” for energy independence… San Jose Mercury News
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Synbio News • 12/01/08
Life As We Don’t Know It
IF YOU THINK OF LIFE on Earth as a magnificent incarnation of natural technology, then life has the classic double-edged character of all powerful technologies… Chemical & Engineering News
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Synbio News • 11/24/08
Synthetic Viruses Could Explain Animal-to-Human Jumps
In a technical tour de force with potentially profound implications for the study of emerging diseases, researchers have built the largest-ever self-replicating organism from scratch… Wired
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Synbio News • 11/17/08
Synthetic biology aims to generate biofuels, medicines, and novel organisms
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. It sounds big and sweeping like synthetic chemistry, and it is… Chemical & Engineering News
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Synbio News • 11/14/08
Build Your Own Cell: Local Scientists Work to Engineer Life
Bay Area futurists and their fans are gathering Sunday in a coming-of-age celebration for the fledgling field of synthetic biology, which builds living entities from lifeless chemicals… San Jose Mercury News
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