Mar 3, 2023 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
German Tech and Science PM Magazine published an interview with Markus Schmidt from Biofaction about the future of the human body. The interview covered synthetic life, neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence. Read the article here (in German).
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:...
Oct 12, 2020 | 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...
May 7, 2020 | 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...
May 17, 2018 | Media, News, publication, Publications, science, Science Communication, Uncategorized
A publication by Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt about teamwork in insects and a unique hunting technique in tropical ants that resembles medieval torture racks, got wide media coverage. ★ New Scientist. Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch...
Jan 22, 2018 | Classic, Media, News, publication, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
In a recent guest blog in Nature biotechnology’s Bioentrepreneur Trade Secrets, Markus Schmidt reported about the latest developments in designing novel vaccines. The reprogramming of Mycoplasma bacteria from pathogens to vaccines is only made possible thanks to...
