Making Perfect Life

European Parliament publishes the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) – Options Brief No 2012-08, about “Making Perfect Life: European Governance Challenges in 21st Century Bio-engineering”. The Assessment was carried out by a number of...

Biosafety in synthetic biology

Biofaction published an article about the biosafety considerations in the synthetic biology competition iGEM, see: Guan Z, Schmidt M, Pei L, Wei W, Ma K. (2013). Biosafety considerations of synthetic biology in the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)...

Persistent genes for synthetic life

In collaboration with German, French and US colleagues we co-published an article about minimal life forms, titled: Acevedo-Rocha CG, Fang G, Schmidt M, Ussery DW, Danchin A. 2012. From essential to persistent genes: a functional approach to constructing synthetic...