Dec 11, 2017 | art-science, Creative, Media, News, Science Communication, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Saturday 9th December, BBC 3 covered the works of our artist in residence Eduardo R. Miranda. Eduardo spent a few weeks as artist in residence of the EU SYNPETIDE project that aimed to design novel synthetic antibiotics. At the University of Regensburg, one of the...
Dec 4, 2017 | Creative, Film & Video, News, Science Communication, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction’s documentary film “The Berrymakers” was selected from 1300 film entries at the 7th International Festival of Documentary Films on Life Sciences in Prague! :-) Watch the film online: The Berrymakers from Biofaction on...
Nov 3, 2017 | art-science, Creative, event, Events, News, Stories, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction founder Markus Schmidt has been invited to present the insights of our art-science collaborations in Vienna and London in November. ★ Bartlett International Lecture Series. The Bartlett School of Architecture. Living outside the box: the promises and perils...
Jun 9, 2017 | art-science, Events, Film & Video, Media, News, publication, Science Communication, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
Two films produced by BIOFACTION are going to to be screened at two international film festivals. On June 29th 2017 the film “The Berrymakers” will open the 2nd Karlsruhe Science Film Days in Germany. Later in October “Synthetic Biology in...
May 30, 2017 | Media, News, publication, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
The June 2017 edition of Technology Review (German Edition) featured a synthetic biology special. Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, who for many years advocated the development of better biosafety systems shares his thoughts in an interview with Technology Review on...
Apr 14, 2017 | News, publication, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology, Uncategorized
Victor de Lorenzo (CSIC, Spain) and Markus Schmidt (Biofaction) published a review about the potential of Do-it-yourself Biology (DIYBio) in the journal Microbial Biotechnology. The article highlights the potential of for innovation, but also explores the many other...
