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BIO·FICTION in PERTH
- Dec 01, 2020
- By admin
- In announcement, art-science, Creative, event, Events, Film & Video, neurotechnology, News, science
Our Science Art Film Festival BIO·FICTION is on tour and our next tour stop is Perth! A selection of the neurotech festival films will be screened at the Perth Cultural Centre (Perth, Western Australia) on December 5, 2020 as part of the incredible XR:WA festival. Directly after the screening we…
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Carbon Futures and Plant Stories
- Nov 26, 2020
- By admin
- In announcement, art-science, Creative, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
We have some exciting news! We collaborated with Museon and produced two new installations for their “One Planet” exhibition. Photo credit: Museon Museon is a family friendly museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands). Their permanent exhibition “One Planet” challenges visitors to learn about current global…
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Online Roundtable: Synthetic Biology and Education
- Nov 25, 2020
- By Markus Schmidt
- In announcement, event, Events, Science Communication, Science in Society, Serious Games, Synthetic Biology
The EC H2020 funded Bioroboost project on standardisation in synthetic biology hosts an online Roundtable on Synthetic Biology and Education. One of the speakers will be Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, who will be talking about different tools for education, ranging from games to interactive exhibition. It will take place on December…
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Artists in Residence have been selected!
- Nov 12, 2020
- By admin
- In announcement, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
This past spring, we opened a call for new Artist in Residence programs for MADONNA (2 residencies), NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. We received 166 submissions from 43 countries. The quality of the proposals was outstanding, and we were amazed by the exciting ideas of the artists and how they wanted to tackle the three Synthetic Biology…
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Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms
- Oct 12, 2020
- By admin
- In announcement, News, publication, Publications, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, together with Nediljko Budisa and Vladimir Kubyshkin, had the opportunity to edit a special collection for ChemBioChem. The special issue is called “Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms” and it deals, as the title suggests, with Xenobiology: the science of estranged life forms. Xenobiology uses the genetic…
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New Articles: Xenobiology & Biological Standards
- May 07, 2020
- By Sandra Y
- In announcement, News, publication, Publications, Synthetic Biology
We’ve collaborated on two new open-access papers that we think will provide you with food for thought: The first, titled “The long journey towards standards for engineering biosystems”, featured in EMBO reports, springs out of an ongoing discussion about adopting scientific and industry-like standards within the field of Synthetic Biology.…
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Call for Artist in Residence
- Apr 29, 2020
- By admin
- In announcement, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction is seeking applications for new Artist in Residence programmes for MADONNA, NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with scientists working on one of three Synthetic Biology related projects that delve into fascinating areas: plant molecular farming, new-to-nature reactions, and cell factories. We welcome applications…
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Tobacco plants could save your lungs from COVID-19
- Apr 17, 2020
- By admin
- In announcement, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
The SARS-COV-2 virus has caused one of the largest, devastating and socioeconomically staggering pandemics since the 1918 Spanish flu – the COVID-19 pandemic. A large number of public and private research groups are working around the clock in a race to develop protein-based diagnostic reagents and vaccines for fighting the…
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Announcing Our New Project: BioRoboost
- Oct 17, 2019
- By admin
- In announcement, News, project, science, Science Communication, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
We are participating in a new project: BioRoboost – Fostering snythetic biology standardisation through international collaboration. The project aims set up an international collaborative network on synthetic biology standards. Synthetic biology as any other enginieering field relies on the use of well-defined, universal and robust standard components. However, defining biological…
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BIO·FICTION 2019
- Oct 14, 2019
- By admin
- In announcement, art-science, Creative, Events, Film & Video, neurotechnology, News, project, science, Science Communication, Science in Society
The new edition of BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival took place on September 23 and 24, 2019 in Vienna. We had two days of rich and exciting content dealing with Neurotechnologies – with short film screenings, cross-disciplinary discussions, a brain-computer interface demo and an awards ceremony for the short film competition! In addition, we…
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