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Compiled by Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge. 
This site contains details of recent papers and activity in Synthetic Biology, with particular emphasis on: (i) development of standards in biology and DNA parts, (ii) microbial and (iii) plant systems, (iv) research and teaching in the field at the University of Cambridge, (v) hardware for scientific computing and instrumentation, (vi) tools for scientific productivity and collected miscellany. 

 

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  • 18 Feb

    Winter q-bio Meeting

    Technology is driving revolutionary changes in biology. Over the past decade, scientists and engineers have begun to define the path forward in the genomic era. Systems Biology has arisen...

  • 17 Mar

    Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology: Designing Genomes and Pathways

    Now that we know the sequences of many genomes, from a wide variety of organisms and even from individuals with unique characteristics, many researchers have turned to making intentional...

  • 09 Apr

    Synthetic Biology and Conservation

    The developments within synthetic biology promise to change the world in significant ways. Yet synthetic biology is largely unrecognized within conservation. The purpose of the meeting...

  • 09 Jun

    Gordon Conference: Synthetic Biology

    (Re-)constructing and Re-programming Life This conference will provide an in-depth discussion forum among practitioners of the various fields underlying Synthetic Biology. It aims to...

  • 09 Jul

    BioBricks Foundation Synthetic Biology 6.0

    The BioBricks Foundation is pleased to announce The BioBricks Foundation Synthetic Biology 6.0 Conference (SB6.0), which will take place on July 9-11, 2013 at Imperial College, London,...

  • 30 Jul

    CSHL Course in Synthetic Biology

    This course will focus on how the complexity of biological systems, combined with traditional engineering approaches, results in the emergence of new design principles for synthetic...

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27 Apr 2010

RNAi patent jolt

 

RNAi patent jolt
Charlie Schmidt - Nature Biotechnology
 
28,
 
300
 
(2010)
 
doi:10.1038/nbt0410-300a, 

The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for detection of RNA-mediated gene silencing to Sir David Baulcombe, University of Cambridge, and Andrew Hamilton, University of Glasgow, over a decade after their gene silencing findings in plants were first reported (Science 286, 950–952, 1999). “The new patent has implications beyond plants,” says Jan Chojecki, CEO of Plant Bioscience Limited (PBL), of Norwich, the tech transfer company that owns the patents. “Anyone in the US profiling short RNAs and their impact on gene expression in mammalian systems is likely to be interested. We think it will create quite a stir.” The new patent recognizes Baulcombe and Hamilton's discovery that when genes are silenced complementary RNA strands of 20–30 bp accumulate—a finding that also proved critical to establishing short RNAs as a tool to manipulate gene expression. The initial patent for this technology, issued in 2004, was limited to plants, but the new patent broadens out to mammals. PBL expects to grant licenses to industry but will not enforce rights in academia, provided researchers use licensed detection kits. James McNamara, who directs the Office of Technology Management, University of Massachusetts Medical School, points out that Craig Mello and Andrew Fire, now at Stanford University, developed comparable RNA detection methods. “But if a company practices methods that might infringe on Baulcombe and Hamilton, they might take a license on it for reasonable terms,” he says.


From: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v28/n4/full/nbt0410-300a.html

 

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