Tobacco plants could save your lungs from COVID-19
The SARS-COV-2 virus has caused one of the largest, devastating and socioeconomically staggering pandemics since the 1918 Spanish flu - the COVID-19 pandemic. A large number of public and private research groups are working around the clock in a race to develop...
Designing multi-purpose vaccines
Vienna, 25th March 2020 Scientists from the five year EU funded project MycoSynVac report their findings and successes at a final meeting in Brussels. The project drew on cutting edge biotechnology to explore three important GOALS: TRANSFORM a living bacteria...
Updates on Battle for Cattle
While we're reaching the end of the successful project MycoSynVac, we had the chance to organize several communication activities with the project's game Battle for Cattle. We ran a classroom session in Vienna on February 27th, 2020 and used our educational package...
Bacteria as CO2 recycling powerhouse
There are great news about the EU project eForFuel, which works towards replacing fossil fuel by recycling CO2:Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) have reached a significant breakthrough presented in their recent Nature Chemical Biology publication....
Battle for Cattle at Wissens°raum!
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...
Make LOVE not poison!
Sex sells, even in the form of pheromons. Have a look at our new animation produced for DTU Copenhagen which explains the sex pheromones that Olefine is developing using synthetic biology as a replacement for insecticides. Conventionally the pest insects are sprayed...
Meet the KLI Fellows!
The Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) invited us to produce and direct a series of short clips about their research fellows and the exciting topics they are currently working on. The short videos clips delve into the incredibly diverse research topics at KLI - from ...
Schlaulicht covers Battle for Cattle in the last episode!
© Schlaulicht Schlaulicht is a German children's podcast that creates playful episodes around interesting topics with a science and critical thinking approach. Their last episode (#66), aired on 11 December 2019, was about Artificial Intelligence. One of the...
Battle for Cattle in 12 Languages
Adhityo Wicaksono who is the head division of Biotechnology at Genbinesia Foundation visited us here in Vienna. He translated our science game Battle for Cattle in Indonesian and was also in our jury of Bio-fiction Science Art Film Festival. Battle for Cattle is...
Fascination of Plants Day 2019
2019 has been a busy year with many interesting events. One of the past events that we would like to highlight is our collaboration with Dr. Eva Stöger from the Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology from BOKU. We took part at the Fascination of Plants Day...
SinFonia: Introducing the element fluorine to the symphony of life!
We created an animated short clip for the project SinFonia. The clip reflects the project's aims and methods in an entertaining way with musical elements. Have a look at it below! Materials containing the element fluorine (F) are extremely important in our modern...
Announcing Our New Project: BioRoboost
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...