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Project News • 07/20/09
Synthetic Biology on the Radio
Synthetic Biology Project director discusses opportunities and challenges of synthetic biology on The Kojo Nnamdi Show (NPR).
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Synbio News • 07/09/10
Presidential Panel Scrutinizes Synthetic Biology
Scientists are cutting and pasting genes to create engineered organisms that may yield new vaccines and biofuels, but what are the ethical implications of toying with DNA? Geneticist George Church discusses synthetic biology, and why scientists need to be careful with the technology. NPR
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Synbio News • 07/13/10
Synthetic Biology and Cancer: Exploring the Possibilities
Ten years ago, researchers created the first devices widely viewed as launching the field of synthetic biology. In the decade since, advances in genomics and the chemical synthesis of DNA, among other fields, have created new tools for investigating and understanding the behavior of biological systems. National Cancer Institute Cancer Bulletin
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Synbio News • 11/11/08
Engineering life: the implications of synthetic biology
Drew Endy, a leading researcher in a new field called synthetic biology, gave a lecture at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine recently, explaining how researchers in this promising new field are shaping the future of life sciences… Medill Reports
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Synbio News • 07/13/10
Synthetic Biology: Great Promise and Potential Peril
Designer organisms created from scratch in genomics labs won’t run amok anytime soon, according to scientists speaking at the first public meeting of President Obama’s bioethics commission held here in the nation’s capital last week. LiveScience.com
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Project News • 09/22/09
Synthetic Biology Project Receives Two National Science Foundation Grants
The Synthetic Biology project recently received two grants from the National Science Foundation to support a Transatlantic Exploratory Workshop on the Implications of Cutting-Edge Biotechnologies for Sustainability Science and Policy, and research on the use of on-line prediction markets to explore emerging issues in synthetic biology.
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Project News • 06/07/10
Government Funding for Synthetic Biology on the Rise
The Synthetic Biology Project found that the U.S. government has spent around $430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, funded in large part by the Department of Energy.
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