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Another exciting event for our science game! Together with our Viennese partner Wissens°raum from the Austrian Science Center Netzwerk, we organized an event for Battle for Cattle on Saturday, 14.12.2019. Wissens°raum is an amazing space for trying, tinkering and research. Kids alone or with their parents come by and experiment…
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We are participating in a new project: BioRoboost – Fostering snythetic biology standardisation through international collaboration. The project aims set up an international collaborative network on synthetic biology standards. Synthetic biology as any other enginieering field relies on the use of well-defined, universal and robust standard components. However, defining biological…
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The new edition of BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival took place on September 23 and 24, 2019 in Vienna. We had two days of rich and exciting content dealing with Neurotechnologies – with short film screenings, cross-disciplinary discussions, a brain-computer interface demo and an awards ceremony for the short film competition! In addition, we…
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Biofaction is organizing a new edition BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival. The theme of this edition is: FUTUREBODY. Neurotechnologies will be our focal points of convergences between: neural networks, the body, mind, intelligence, society, machines, brain-computer-interface, techno-evolution, mind/brain upload and much more… The festival will take place this September in Vienna, Austria. We’re hosting an…
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We are very happy to introduce you to our new project: SinFonia. SinFonia aims to produce novel fluorochemicals in a biological way. The project wants to engineer the metabolically-versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to execute biofluorinations for generating novel fluoropolymers from renewable substrates. Why is that interesting? Materials containing the element…
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The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is organizing the talk “Designerbabys, Mammuts & Co”. The talk will take place on 03.04.2019 in Theater Akzent, Vienna. Markus Schmidt from Biofaction and Helge Torgersen from the Austrian Academy of Sciences will discuss about the possibilities of synthetic biology. Markus Schmidt will reflect about the…
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European scientists are coming together in a high-level and public meeting in Brussels on 27 November 2018, to present and discuss how innovation improves the everyday life. Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament, and Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation will host the conference “EU Research and…
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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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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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As we’ve already announced, Biofaction is taking part in an exciting project, eForFuel and here is our press release to provide you detailed information. You can scroll down to have a look or follow the links to read it in (ENG) or (DE). eForFuel: Fuels from CO2 and Electricity …
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