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Innovator: George Church Synthetic biologist George Church says he can create living things faster than nature can, essentially speeding up evolution. And he says he can do it cheaply.   |
Wired
January 2005
Oliver Morton |
Life, Reinvented A group of MIT engineers wanted to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature's designs were complicated! So they started rebuilding from the ground up - and gave birth to synthetic biology. |
Chemistry World
July 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Sparks of creation Chemists are at the forefront of synthetic biology, the burgeoning field that could soon create artificial life. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Lucks & Arkin |
Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Joan O'C. Hamilton |
Who Wants to Be a 150-Year-Old? A modern band of Ponce de Leons comes to life in the intensely researched and well-written Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension by ace science writer Stephen S. Hall. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2004
Tonya Vinas |
Making Waves Dubbed the 'third wave' of biotechnology, after medicine and agriculture, industrial biotechnology is promising to reshape manufacturing. |
Chemistry World
February 28, 2013
Andy Extance |
Chemical transport defines 'Goldilocks' cell size A US team has suggested molecular movement as an answer to the question of why cells are the size they are. A question that they say 'still awaits an answer from first principles'. |
Job Journal
September 21, 2003
Marty Nemko |
Biotech = Opportunity What this strong growth industry could offer you |
Scientific American
June 2008
Melinda Wenner |
How Cells Make Use of Random Biochemical Reactions New studies reveal how cells exploit biochemical randomness. |
AskMen.com
Sebastien Stefanov |
Are Modified Foods Dangerous? What foods are potentially dangerous, what are the risks and how can consumers protect themselves against this new industry? |
Scientific American
June 2006 |
How to Kill Synthetic Biology Assembling a complete genetic circuit promises to advance biotechnology in much the same way that the invention of integrated circuits transfigured electronics. |
Bio-IT World
July 2005
Kevin Davies |
Synthetic Biologists Assemble Codon Devices Company Emerging leaders in the new discipline of synthetic biology have raised $13 million in first-round venture funding for the field's first commercial entity - a startup company called Codon Devices. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Sounding the Alarm Details on how cells detect and respond to foreign DNA may provide clues to autoimmune diseases. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005 |
The Side Effects of Drugged Crops The Union of Concerned Scientists' Margaret Mellon explains the group's concerns about the dangers genetically altered food poses. |
Reason
December 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Pink Mice and Petri Dishes Artists contemplate biotechnology. On the evidence of Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, a recent exhibition of 39 artists at the downtown Manhattan gallery Exit Art, the creative community itself isn't quite sure whether biotech is good or bad. |
Salon.com
February 26, 2002
Annalee Newitz |
Genome liberation The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned... |
Chemistry World
May 7, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Bacterium survives unnatural DNA transplant The first organism that can grow and replicate with an unnatural base pair in its DNA -- giving the cell six nucleotides instead of the usual four -- has been created by scientists in the US. |
PC Magazine
August 8, 2008
Carol L. Gonsher |
Storing Data on Living Computers DNA stores an awful lot of information, so why not computer data? |
Bio-IT World
April 2006
Laura Huckabee-Jennings |
Southern Emergence Why Huntsville, Alabama, will be the next biotech hotbed. |
Popular Mechanics
November 27, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Stem Cells 2.0: Beyond the Hype, Engineers Look to Build Fast Engineers play the important role of making lab bench discoveries reproducible and efficient for use in industry. |
Reason
January 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Dr. Strangelunch Or: Why we should learn to stop worrying and love genetically modified food... |
Bio-IT World
September 9, 2002 |
Letters Frustrated in Gene Town... IT for the Biologists, by the Biologists?... |
Scientific American
December 2008
Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
Job Journal
August 8, 2004
Rich Heintz |
Biotech's Winning Formula for Steady Job Growth Deep pockets are creating expanding opportunities and biotechnology is helping to put America back to work. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2002
Tonya Vinas |
Questioning Biotech's Benefits While most communities are investing to attract or grow biotechnology companies, a recent report concludes that only a handful of cities will benefit in the long run. |
Chemistry World
June 30, 2011
Laura Howes |
Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
Chemistry World
February 13, 2015
Tim Wogan |
GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells. |
Wired
January 2003
Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
Chemistry World
May 21, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Rewritable DNA for digital data storage A rewritable memory storage module can form the basis of a digital memory system, scientists suggest, with the cell being able to 'record' transient changes in its internal chemistry. |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2013
Carla Pegoraro |
Steering cells towards biocomputers Bacterial toxins that undergo unique cell interactions have been used to perform logic functions by researchers in Germany. This innovation will help push the limits of synthetic biology. |
Chemistry World
June 29, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Going green with white biotech Industrial biotech has also been growing steadily in the chemicals sector, and in 2007 six per cent of all chemical sales were generated with the help of enzymes - so-called 'white' biotech. |
Wired
April 2003
Charles C. Mann |
New and Improved! A user's guide to your genetically modified future. |
