Oct 21, 2022 | Events, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction’s CEO Dr. Markus Schmidt was invited to teach at the 20th October at the Geopolitics and Global Futures Symposium 2022, organized by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. The overall topic was Transformative Technologies and Security where Dr....
May 4, 2022 | Events, neurotechnology, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Markus Schmidt from Biofaction was invited as a guest speaker at the OECD workshop titled “Human augmentation: a challenge for governance?” The workshop was part of the 15th Session of the working party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging...
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:...
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...
Jun 29, 2016 | event, Events, report, Science Communication, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
After the first Science Cafè in Barcelona, the second MycoSynVac Science Cafè took place June 25, 2016 in Amsterdam at the Nemo Science Museum. It was held as part of the two-day long Synergene Forum 2016, a large public event which discussed synthetic biology as well...
Sep 21, 2015 | Events, Science in Society, Science Policy
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) welcomes colleagues in the sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists for their 2015 conference NEOLIFE in...
