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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. |
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. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Synthetic biology is bursting with life The field encompasses a vast array of research themes, from creating artificial life to engineering microbes to produce medicines or fuels. Through it all, though, runs a rich seam of chemistry. |
Chemistry World May 20, 2010 Hayley Birch |
The first synthetic cell A chemically synthesised chromosome has for the first time been transplanted into a cell to produce a synthetic bacterium. |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 John Carey |
On The Brink Of Artificial Life Craig Venter says success is near, but critics blast efforts to patent synthetic organisms. |
Bio-IT World August 15, 2005 Kevin Davies |
Pimp My Genome As costs plummet, the ability to rapidly synthesize and customize longer, more intricate fragments of genomic DNA opens up a plethora of applications in basic and applied biology. A commercial synthetic biology industry is beginning to take shape. |
BusinessWeek August 12, 2010 Arielle Fridson |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin |
Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering |
Chemistry World May 15, 2014 |
It's life, but not as we know it A US team at The Scripps Research Institute in California, has unveiled the first living Escherichia coli cells with non-natural base pairs in their DNA. |
Chemistry World September 14, 2011 David Bradley |
Brewing up Synthetic Yeast Yeast with synthetic genomes could be very useful for medicinal chemists and drug companies. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: There's plenty of room in the middle Today, chemists and biologists are looking at the space between their own disciplines and asking big questions about where science at the interface might lead them. |
Chemistry World May 1, 2014 Ned Stafford |
Synthetic biology vision for Europe unveiled A new 'strategic vision' for synthetic biology has laid out the steps Europe needs to take in the next five to 10 year to nurture the field, with chemistry a key part of its strategy. |
Chemistry World April 10, 2013 Hayley Birch |
Yeast to make malaria drug on demand A natural biochemical pathway that produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the sweet wormwood plant has been fully reconstructed in yeast. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 James Urquhart |
Synthetic yeast chromosome is fully functional The first complete and functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created by a team of scientists based in the US. |
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. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2011 |
Bringing DNA to Life Clyde Hutchison's research focuses on the search for improved methods to learn about gene function from DNA sequence information. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2015 Emma Stoye |
UK announces 40m fund for synthetic biology The UK government has said it will invest 40 million pounds in synthetic biology over the next five years, 32 million of which will be used to establish three new research centers. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
UK's chem-bio interface gets mixed report United Kingdom scientists working at the interface between chemistry and biology think their research councils don't adequately support interdisciplinary research, a survey suggests. |
Wired Lucas Graves |
15th Anniversary: Scientists Chase the Miracle of Fake Life Biologist J. Craig Venter engineered a synthetic version of a real organism's entire genetic code. Here's how. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
Cultivating collaboration A new network aims to bring the power of interdisciplinary innovation to bear on global food issues. |
Chemistry World |
Fishing for Chemical Answers to Biological Questions James K. Chen talks about chemical biology, his love for the outdoors and fly fishing. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2014 Philip Ball |
Synthetic aesthetics Artists, designers, scientists and sociologists got together in 2009 for an intensive workshop that debated what synthetic biology might and might not mean. |
Chemistry World July 2007 Philip Ball |
Opinion: The Crucible Working towards a cell-like entity from scratch by adding new functions in a process of gradual complexification is not without its dangers, but to simply damn it as 'playing God' would be to capitulate to a mistaken view of what being alive may mean. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2012 |
Protein power Tom Muir, professor of chemistry and molecular biology, Princeton University, US, is an expert in protein engineering and its application to studying cellular signalling networks. |
Wired August 2004 Oliver Morton |
A Machine With a Mind of Its Own Ross King wanted a research assistant who would work 24/7 without sleep or food. So he built one. King's robot can look at the results of a biology experiment, draw a conclusion about what the results might mean, and then set off to test that conclusion. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Plants and microorganisms are the original synthetic chemists Greg Challis is a professor of chemical biology at the University of Warwick in the UK. Research in the Challis group encompasses the discovery, biosynthesis, bioengineering and mechanism of action of bioactive natural products. |
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Protein synthesis hijacked to turn out cyclic peptides Japanese researchers have developed a way of reprogramming the genetic code and using bacteria to make and screen huge libraries of cyclic peptides using unnatural amino acids. |
Wired December 2002 Douglas McGray |
Supermicrobe Man First Craig Venter cracked the human genome. Now he wants to sequence the ocean and save the world. |
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 September 30, 2010 Andrew Turley |
Bacteria factories for Taxol precursors Researchers have engineered bacteria to produce precursors of Taxol (paclitaxel), one of the most widely used cancer drugs. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
A cytochrome from scratch Artificial proteins could be closer to participating in natural biochemical pathways after researchers show that bacteria will process amino acid sequences entirely unrelated to any natural protein to produce a fully functioning cytochrome. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Yeast turned into morphine and opioid biofactories Genetically modified yeast can synthesize morphine and semisynthetic opioid pharmaceuticals, researchers in the US have shown. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2013 Hayley Birch |
RNA mimic destined for synthetic genome US scientists have taken another step towards the goal of creating self-replicating molecules like those thought to have spawned life on Earth. The researchers made RNA-like polymers capable of copying short sections of genetic code that they suggest could act as genomes in synthetic cells. |
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 |
Craig Venter Unvarnished (part II) The former Celera CEO covers privacy, ESTs, and his new research institutes. |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Bioinformatics moves into the mainstream An explosion of data is being tamed with new systems |
Chemistry World February 18, 2008 John Bonner |
Flicking the Acetyl Switch A strain of Escherichia coli that can produce proteins containing an acetylated version of the amino acid lysine could help to reveal how acetylation changes the function of hundreds of proteins inside cells. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2011 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2011 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year's crop of chemical science papers. |
Chemistry World October 2011 David Delpy |
EPSRC Funding The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions. |
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Andy Merritt |
Chemical biology comes of age Historically strongest in the US, chemical biology has become increasingly important worldwide, but for many years researchers at the chemistry -- biology interface have struggled to establish their discipline |
Fast Company February 1, 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Fueling The Future The oil well of tomorrow may be in a California lab full of genetically modified, diesel-spewing bacteria. |
Chemistry World August 17, 2011 Josh Howgego |
Worms Modified to Express Unnatural Amino Acids Unnatural amino acids have been expressed for the first time in complex multicellular organisms. Researchers hope this will open up new ways to track biochemical processes and disease pathways. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes. |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Zachary Zimmerman |
Learning the Language of Systems Biology Geneticist par excellence David Botstein talks about his philosophy, science, his mission for integrative science, and what he deems a success for systems biology. |
Chemistry World August 26, 2014 Andy Extance |
No-frills coats set a trend for designer viruses Dutch scientists have built a simple model of viruses' protective coats in an attempt to create viral mimics that could fight diseases, as opposed to causing them. |