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Recent findings throughout Europe demonstrated that “Beef” was in many cases horse meat. One can only speculate how long this foul practice has been going on and how many other products contain surprising ingredients. How often are food products tested once they have been approved for the market? Modern biotechnology,…
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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) competition. Bioscience. Vol. 63 (1):25-34
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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 life. Trends in Genetics. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.11.001. [Epub ahead of print]
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Mexican art magazine Fahrenheit° published an extensive article about our Bioart exhibition “synth-ethic”. .
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Together with Helge Torgersen, Markus Schmidt published a chapter in the recent ACATECH volume on Communicating Biotechnology with a special focus on synthetic biology.
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New book publication by Biofaction: Schmidt M. (ed.) 2012: Synthetic Biology: Industrial and Environmental Applications
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Biofaction and Styblo TV presented the documentary film “Bioart, Art from the Laboratory”. More…
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As part of the first-ever global citizen consultation on Biodiversity, Biofaction’s documentary film on biodiversity will be shown on Thursday October 18, 2012, in Hyderabd India at the COP11 meeting of the United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity.
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ESF EUROSYNBIO Conference Progress in synthetic biology. From 3rd-5th of October 2012
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Video about the results of World Wide Views on Biodiversity is now available online. View video here: More…
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