Watch how eForFuel is producing biofuel from electricity and CO2!
Biofaction has been working on a short clip over the summer for our EU funded project eForFuel. The animation explains what eForFuel is all about, including our approaches and processes. We designed the animation to be smooth, flowing and easy to understand. Have a...
FUTUREBODY: The Future of the Body in the Light of Neurotechnology
We're excited to tell you that we’ve kicked off a new project this summer: FUTUREBODY: The Future of the Body in the Light of Neurotechnology. This is an EU ERANET NEURON project in collaboration with KIT-ITAS (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), University of...
Dr. Tobacco, the healthy breed!
Biofaction created a new animated introductory clip for our EU funded project Newcotiana. Have a look at how tobacco can be redesigned to save its reputation and become a plant that's good for you and your health. Taking advantage of cutting-edge molecular breeding...
Vaccination from the gangsta lab
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...
We’ve published our first art-science booklet!
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...
eForFuel Press Release
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...
Chemiereport covers MycoSynVac research project
The Austrian Life Science Magazine "Chemiereport" published an article (in German) by Biofaction's Markus Schmidt about novel strategies to develop vaccines by reprograming pathogens.
Media coverage about teamwork in ants
A publication by Biofaction's Markus Schmidt about teamwork in insects and a unique hunting technique in tropical ants that resembles medieval torture racks, got wide media coverage. ★ New Scientist. Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers ★...
eForFuel: Fuels from CO2 and Electricity
We are happy to let you know about our new project, eForFuel. eForFuel develops an industrial biotechnology solution that uses electricity and microorganisms to convert CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels, thus providing a sustainable replacement of fossil carbons. For...
NEWCOTIANA, Breeding Tobacco For Health
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...
MC Grease is in da Cows!
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...
Synthetic Vaccines
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...