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We are participating in a new EU-funded project, NEWCOTIANA. It is a research and innovation action that combines several new plant breeding techniques to produce medical and cosmetic products in tobacco plants. Taking advantage of cutting-edge molecular breeding methodologies, researchers will develop new varieties of tobacco and its wild relative…
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In this music video produced by Biofaction, MC Grease da Disease, A.K.A. Mycoplasma bovis, is a pathogenic bacteria that causes diseases in cows. Unharmed by even antibiotics, he lives unhindered like a rogue in the cow’s lung, until the researchers of the EC H2020 funded project MycoSynVac discover a really…
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In a recent guest blog in Nature biotechnology’s Bioentrepreneur Trade Secrets, Markus Schmidt reported about the latest developments in designing novel vaccines. The reprogramming of Mycoplasma bacteria from pathogens to vaccines is only made possible thanks to an international collaboration of synthetic biologists, systems biologists, bioinformaticians, animal health experts, biosafety specialist…
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Saturday 9th December, BBC 3 covered the works of our artist in residence Eduardo R. Miranda. Eduardo spent a few weeks as artist in residence of the EU SYNPETIDE project that aimed to design novel synthetic antibiotics. At the University of Regensburg, one of the partners in SYNPEPTIDE, Eduardo developed…
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Biofaction’s documentary film “The Berrymakers” was selected from 1300 film entries at the 7th International Festival of Documentary Films on Life Sciences in Prague! :-) Watch the film online: The Berrymakers from Biofaction on Vimeo.
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Much can and has been said about an issue that we face globally today and that endangers human health in a very real way: the problem of ever-increasing antibiotic resistance. But what does this problem actually entail, and how can we make it tangible? What does the work of scientists…
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Biofaction founder Markus Schmidt has been invited to present the insights of our art-science collaborations in Vienna and London in November. ★ Bartlett International Lecture Series. The Bartlett School of Architecture. Living outside the box: the promises and perils of synthetic biology. London, UK. 29 November 2017 ★ Vienna…
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Two films produced by BIOFACTION are going to to be screened at two international film festivals. On June 29th 2017 the film “The Berrymakers” will open the 2nd Karlsruhe Science Film Days in Germany. Later in October “Synthetic Biology in Europe” is a candidate at the 7th Life Science Film…
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The June 2017 edition of Technology Review (German Edition) featured a synthetic biology special. Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, who for many years advocated the development of better biosafety systems shares his thoughts in an interview with Technology Review on how to improve current safety practices and risk assessment of newly designed organisms…
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We are happy to present a short film about POSSIBLE TOMORROWS, an exhibition we curated during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2016. Possible Tomorrows introduced a selection of experimental and technical design applications hatched from the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology. Selected designers/artists contributed on the one hand speculative applications and…
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