Jun 3, 2014 | Events, Science in Society
THE BIO COMMONS Markus Schmidt will give a keynote presentation at the 2014 Pixelache Festival in Helsinki, Finnland, 6th June 2014. In the case of Bio-commons, developments in biotechnology rely mainly on patents as means to enable and secure innovations. The new...
May 21, 2014 | Events, Science Communication, Serious Games
Science gamification enables youngsters to meet synthetic biology The SYNMOD game, developed by Biofaction, is a serious game for mobile devices. The game is addressing the problem of multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria and is showing the way to create new...
Apr 14, 2014 | Events, science, Science in Society, Science Policy, Uncategorized
The First Conference on Xenobiology (XB1) aims to gather scientists, engineers, designers, policy makers and other stakeholders to chart the paths toward an entirely novel biodiversity. The conference will take place in Genoa, Italy, from 6 to 8 of May, 2014. The XB1...
Apr 2, 2014 | Events, Film & Video, Science Communication, Science in Society, Serious Games, Uncategorized
We participated with a Poster at the 2nd EMBO Conference on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI 2014). 5-7 March 2014 at EMBL-Heidelberg in Germany.
Mar 20, 2014 | Events, Science Communication, Serious Games
Biofaction wins Gold Medal at International Science Games Competition “iGAM4ER” in Paris. The SYNMOD game allowsplayers to build and test new antibiotics on their smartphone. IGAM4ER competition debriefing from CRI Paris on...
Mar 20, 2014 | art-science, Events, Science Policy, Uncategorized
As the result of a collective nomination process that took place this winter–involving Pixelache’s members, two speakers have been confirmed to give an introduction to the theme of Camp Pixelache focused on the Commons in early June. Alain Ambrosi (Montreal, CA) and...
