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Entrepreneurial scientists in the synthetic biology space can benefit from a new GBP 10M investment fund that opens for business today. The new fund will help companies in the early stages of their journey towards sustainability, through investment, strategic support and leveraging private capital.
Nov 6th, 2013
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A technique that simultaneously modifies multiple genes in fermentation bacteria could aid lactic acid production for industry.
Nov 6th, 2013
Read moreProper embryonic development depends on a signaling pathway that helps to preserve stem cell 'immaturity'.
Nov 6th, 2013
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Engineering cells to produce useful compounds such as drugs and biofuels.
Nov 6th, 2013
Read moreA new report from the Synthetic Biology Project looks at how the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity may affect US researchers working in the field of synthetic biology.
Nov 4th, 2013
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Riboswitches are RNA segments that switch genes on and off, either during DNA transcription or during protein translation, but little is known about the precise workings of this process. A study at SISSA uncovers some of the basic steps in this complex mechanism and paves the way for future research.
Nov 4th, 2013
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Scientists looking to create a potent blend of enzymes to transform materials like corn stalks and wood chips into fuels have developed a test that should turbocharge their efforts. The work revolves around the fungus Trichoderma reesei, which introduced itself to US troops during World War II by chewing through their tents in the Pacific theater. Now the fungus is a star in the world of biofuels.
Nov 4th, 2013
Read moreA new method of producing na�ve induced pluripotent stem cells holds promise for the future of regenerative biomedical research.
Oct 31st, 2013
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Researchers at the University of Manchester's Institute of Biotechnology have used the power of off-the-shelf computer gaming technology to capture previously unobservable atomic movements.
Oct 31st, 2013
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Researchers have discovered that the protein LIMP 2 possesses a novel protein fold together with a nanomicroscopically small transport tunnel.
Oct 28th, 2013
Read moreResearchers are on the way to making parts of a bioartificial kidney out of a novel polymer - which could reduce the risk of transplants being rejected by the human body.
Oct 24th, 2013
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For 10 years, Patrick Cramer and his colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have probed the structure of RNA polymerase I, a crucial cog in the machinery of all cells. Now they unveil the full three-dimensional conformation of the enzyme - at atomic resolution.
Oct 24th, 2013
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The molecular machine that makes essential components of ribosomes - the cell's protein factories - is like a Swiss-army knife, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Centro de Investigaciones Biol�gicas in Madrid, Spain, have found.
Oct 24th, 2013
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Researchers from Rice University's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics have deciphered the operating principles of a genetic circuit that allows cancer to metastasize. The study revealed that the decision circuit has three settings, an oddity that could open the door to cancer treatments that disrupt the circuit.
Oct 24th, 2013
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Berkeley Lab researchers at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) have invented a new technique for studying the process by which certain errors in the genetic code are detected and repaired.
Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreA new tool is uncovering the fundamentals of how cells respond to surfaces and could potentially improve the effectiveness of biomedical implants.
Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreSemiconductor Research Corporation, the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, today launched the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program on hybrid bio-semiconductor systems to provide insights and opportunities for future information and communication technologies. The program will initially fund research at six universities: MIT, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Yale, Georgia Tech, Brigham Young and the University of Washington.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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To produce proteins on an industrial scale without using living cells is the ambitious goal of cell-free bioproduction. This method could help us to produce biological ingredients more quickly and with fewer resources than conventional techniques allow.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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