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Synthetic Biology and Speculative Bodies
- Dec 16, 2020
- By Sandra Y
- In Film & Video, News, Publications, science, Science in Film, Science in Society, Stories, Synthetic Biology
As part of our last BIO·FICTION on Tour round, we joined a thought-provoking conference organised by the Orient-Institut Istanbul, which gathered interdisciplinary and international perspectives on the topic “Upgrades of Nature, Future Bodies“. Organ being taken from surgical tray for transplant (Electrostabilis Cardium 2013) Invited to contribute to a book…
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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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Bacteria as CO2 recycling powerhouse
- Feb 21, 2020
- By admin
- In News, Publications, science, Science Communication, Synthetic Biology
There are great news about the EU project eForFuel, which works towards replacing fossil fuel by recycling CO2:Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) have reached a significant breakthrough presented in their recent Nature Chemical Biology publication. Their research for EU project eForFuel has redesigned the model biotechnological bacteria Escherichia…
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Vaccination from the gangsta lab
- Jun 27, 2018
- By admin
- In Film & Video, News, Publications, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
Spektrum der Wissenschaften, one of the most prolific science magazines in the German speaking countries, came across our animated music video starring a pathogenic bacterium, MC Grease da Disease, A.K.A. Mycoplasma bovis. They used it as a starting point to report about our project MycoSynVac, discussing in further detail the use…
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We’ve published our first art-science booklet!
- Jun 26, 2018
- By admin
- In announcement, art-science, Creative, News, Publications, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
This is something new and different for us: We’ve published our first art-science booklet! It’s called “The Art of Antibiotics” and it documents the artist in residency program within the EC FP7 funded project SYNPEPTIDE, which aimed to design and test novel types of antimicrobial peptides. The residency program hosted Sarah Craske in Switzerland…
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Media coverage about teamwork in ants
- May 17, 2018
- By Markus Schmidt
- In 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 grasshoppers ★ Pyhs.org. Ants found to use trapping technique to capture much larger…
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Public participation in serious life science games?
- Jun 22, 2016
- By Markus Schmidt
- In publication, Publications, science, Science Communication, Science in Society, Serious Games
In a recently published article titled “Homo Politicus meets Homo Ludens: Public participation in serious life science games” published in the journal “Public Understanding of Science”, the authors attempt to find out whether, and to what extent, public participation can be realized via dedicated science gamification. The article, written by…
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BIO·FICTION in “Neural”
- Sep 08, 2015
- By Markus Schmidt
- In art-science, Events, Publications, Science Policy
In the latest issues of Hacktivism Journal “Neural”, Eugenio Battaglia reports about the Vienna BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival, commenting on cultural amnesia, avoidance of self-referential artworks and the notion that we have always been Biohackers. Read more…
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Biofaction now on Facebook
- Jul 08, 2015
- By admin
- In Publications, Science Communication
After LinkedIn and Twitter you can now follow us on Facebook for news, events and informations about BIOFACTION and related topics. Click image below:
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