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Submissions for the 2019 BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival are now open! Biofaction is organizing a new edition for the 2019 BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival. The theme of this year’s festival is: FUTUREBODY. We’re looking for short films dealing with how neurotechnology shapes the future of the human body,…
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Markus Schmidt explained de-extinction in the light of massive global biodiversity loss. The presentations were followed by an hour of Q&A with the audience in Theater Akzent. Thanks to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the invitation, Helge Torgersen for the fruitful debate and Birgit Dalheimer for her excellent moderation!…
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The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is organizing the talk “Designerbabys, Mammuts & Co”. The talk will take place on 03.04.2019 in Theater Akzent, Vienna. Markus Schmidt from Biofaction and Helge Torgersen from the Austrian Academy of Sciences will discuss about the possibilities of synthetic biology. Markus Schmidt will reflect about the…
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Biofaction founder Markus Schmidt has been invited to one of the LASER Talks in Vienna: Shenzen Molecular Speed. The event will take place on the 15th of December from 6:15 PM to 8:15 PM at the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL). The talk asks whether both, artistic media and new biotech markets go beyond the…
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European scientists are coming together in a high-level and public meeting in Brussels on 27 November 2018, to present and discuss how innovation improves the everyday life. Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament, and Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation will host the conference “EU Research and…
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We’re excited to tell you that we’ve kicked off a new project this summer: FUTUREBODY: The Future of the Body in the Light of Neurotechnology. This is an EU ERANET NEURON project in collaboration with KIT-ITAS (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), University of Freiburg and University of Calgary. The 3 year long FUTUREBODY deals with emerging…
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This is something new and different for us: We’ve published our first art-science booklet! It’s called “The Art of Antibiotics” and it documents the artist in residency program within the EC FP7 funded project SYNPEPTIDE, which aimed to design and test novel types of antimicrobial peptides. The residency program hosted Sarah Craske in Switzerland…
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As we’ve already announced, Biofaction is taking part in an exciting project, eForFuel and here is our press release to provide you detailed information. You can scroll down to have a look or follow the links to read it in (ENG) or (DE). eForFuel: Fuels from CO2 and Electricity …
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We are happy to let you know about our new project, eForFuel. eForFuel develops an industrial biotechnology solution that uses electricity and microorganisms to convert CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels, thus providing a sustainable replacement of fossil carbons. For biorefineries to displace fossil fuels, a sustainable feedstock for microbial growth must be identified. As agricultural…
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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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