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We are participating in a new EU-funded project, NEWCOTIANA. It is a research and innovation action that combines several new plant breeding techniques to produce medical and cosmetic products in tobacco plants. Taking advantage of cutting-edge molecular breeding methodologies, researchers will develop new varieties of tobacco and its wild relative…
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In this music video produced by Biofaction, MC Grease da Disease, A.K.A. Mycoplasma bovis, is a pathogenic bacteria that causes diseases in cows. Unharmed by even antibiotics, he lives unhindered like a rogue in the cow’s lung, until the researchers of the EC H2020 funded project MycoSynVac discover a really…
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We are happy to present a short film about POSSIBLE TOMORROWS, an exhibition we curated during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2016. Possible Tomorrows introduced a selection of experimental and technical design applications hatched from the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology. Selected designers/artists contributed on the one hand speculative applications and…
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We are pleased to launch BerryMaker – an exciting science game exploring the world of synthetic biology and berries through the eyes of a biotech start-up! or PLAY ONLINE! OUTLINE OF THE GAME: In BerryMaker, you’re the founder and CEO of a biotech start-up company that produces healthy…
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We are happy to see our former Artist in Residence Orkan Telhan’s work in the Wetware: Art | Agency Animation catalogue, documenting the exhibition which took place last year at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, California. The exhibition catalogue features his Microbial Design Studio, an automated biolab to design, culture and test…
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Our Call for an Artist in Residence raised a lot of interest within the art-science community worldwide. Our jury panel had the difficult task of selecting from 80 applications from 29 countries. A jury panel, composed of members of the BIOPROCESS LABORATORY, BIOFACTION as well as an independent art curator,…
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We released a new documentary film about the international research and innovation project BACHBERRY that searched for valuable substances in plants, particularly berries, that could be beneficial for health and other useful applications. We travelled to the experimental Vavilov research station in St. Petersburg, Russia; visited the biochemical analysts at…
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Synthetic Biology – visions of the future SYNENERGENE Forum 24-25th June 2016 Amsterdam The SYNENERGENE Forum is a large public event which will discuss the promises and implications of synthetic biology from a societal perspective. Synthetic biology From the beginning of this century synthetic biology has emerged as a new…
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Our BIO·FICTION Science Art and Film Festival started tremendously into the new year 2016. On 23rd of January, BIO·FICTION was hosted by the Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona (CCCB) as part of their “Human+” exhibition. The film screening was followed-up by a panel discussion with Núria Conde (biologist), Arturo Fuentes (scientist and cineast)…
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