Aug 21, 2022 | announcement, art-science, Creative, event, Events, Film & Video, neurotechnology, News, science, Science in Society
The BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival Tour had a stop over in Berlin, September 2, 2022. The Tour Event was embedded in the meeting: The Future of the Technological Human Body in Light of Its Present & Past at TU Berlin. ScheduleFUTUREBODY: The...
Apr 21, 2022 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Lei Pei and Markus Schmidt from Biofaction, together with Michele Garfinkel from EMBO, recently published a paper in Nature Communications titled Bottlenecks and opportunities for synthetic biology biosafety standards. The article is open access:...
Dec 22, 2021 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
We are excited to be exhibiting once again at Museon, a museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands)! Within their permanent “One Planet” exhibition we had the opportunity to create two new installations, each of them connected to one...
Sep 15, 2021 | Media, News, Science Communication, Science in Society
We created a new set of infographics for SinFonia, our EC funded research project to produce fluoropolymers in a biological way. The informative slides explain the project’s aims, methods and background in a simple and understandable way. Have a look at the...
Sep 15, 2021 | announcement, Media, neurotechnology, News, Publications, Science in Society
Berliner Zeitung interviewed Markus Schmidt about Neurotechnology and our ongoing FWF funded project Futurebody. Schmidt shared his views on the future of the human body and explained how humans will continue to merge with technology as well as what kind of...
Jun 1, 2021 | Film & Video, Media, News, science, Science Communication, Synthetic Biology
Nach dem Vorbild der Natur erforscht der Sonderforschungsbereich CataLight, wie man die Energie aus dem Sonnenlicht speichern und z.B. für die Erzeugung von solaren Treibstoffen nutzen kann. Ziel der Forscherinnen und Forscher ist es, eine künstliche Membran...
