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.
SynBio calendar
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
SynBio Google newsfeed
- Scientists Create Living Crystals
- Novozymes Says Biofuel May Supply 90% of Its Revenue by 2030
- The Tortoise Beetle - Amazing Metallic Arthropods
- Scientists Attempt to Artificially Recreate Photosynthesis in Order to Develop Efficient Renewable Energy
- The light fantastic: Harnessing Nature's glow
- These Spiders Are Frightening and Beautiful At the Same Time
- The Brazilian Treehopper may be the strangest creature we've ever laid eyes on
- New challenges and opportunities for industrial biotechnology.
- The PLOS ONE Synthetic Biology Collection: Six Years and Counting.
- Top 10 Innovations 2012
- Design, implementation and practice of JBEI-ICE: an open source biological part registry platform and tools.
- Starbucks Swaps Crushed Parasitic Beetle Food Coloring for Tomat-O-Red Dye in Strawberry Drinks
- Genetic switchboard for synthetic biology applications.
- Video: Cambridge Researchers Use Legos to Build Artificial Bone in the Lab
- How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress
- The State of the 2012 Advanced Biofuels Industry
- Beached Firefly Squid Light Up the Japanese Coast
- Alan Turing’s School Grades
- Newspaper: America’s Fastest Shrinking Industry
- The best new scientific idea in years [Video]
- Allylix bags BASF investment
- Analyzing and engineering cell signaling modules with synthetic biology.
- Plants: biofactories for a sustainable future?
- 14-Million-Year-Old Organisms?
- 2012 Dyson Awards Call for Entries, Seeking Solutions from Youthful Minds
- Integrating Anaerobic Digestion Into Our Culture: Stats, Reality and the Future
- Innovation at the intersection of synthetic and systems biology.
- Psychedelic Petri dishes turn lab work into a freakout session
- Neil deGrasse Tyson lays bare the decline of American science in 180 seconds
- Renewables funding going strong
- Synthetic biosystems for the production of high-value plant metabolites.
- Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin
- A transcription activator-like effector toolbox for genome engineering
- Synthetic biological approaches to natural product biosynthesis.
- Expanding the synthetic biology toolbox: engineering orthogonal regulators of gene expression.
- Bio-Engineering Board Game Sounds Like More Fun Than Running a Monopoly
- New chemical reagent turns biological tissue transparent
- soma: multiple natures - fibrous tower for taiwan tower competition
- MIT and the future of open-source education
- Crank, bicycle, and waterwheel: hands-on with the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet
- Genetically engineered silkworms with spider genes spin super-strong silk
- The ocean floor is like a rainforest where feces and dead animals rain from the sky
- Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2012
- Scanadu developing a real-life medical tricorder
- WakaWaka solar led lamp aims to light up Kenyan school
- Synthetic Biology in industry
- Plant RNAs found in mammals
- Review: Rewiring cells
- Randall Kirk & Synthetic BIology
- Next step for the synthetic genome
- Synthetic Biology Institute Forum at Berkeley
- Software for programming microbes
- Rewiring Cells
- Classifying DNA assembly protocols for devising cellular architectures.
- Supporting the synthetic revolution
- Model Annotation for Synthetic Biology: Automating Model to Nucleotide Sequence Conversion.
- Exploiting plug-and-play synthetic biology for drug discovery and production in microorganisms.
- Opportunities for yeast metabolic engineering: Lessons from synthetic biology.
- Synthetic Toxicology: Where engineering meets biology and toxicology.
- Contrasts: Craig Venter and NSABB on synthetic biology
- DOE Requests $3.2 Billion for Renewable Energy, Efficiency in FY 2012
- Model Annotation for Synthetic Biology: Automating Model to Nucleotide Sequence Conversion.
- New Synthetic Biology competitions
- New E. chromi video
- The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2010-11 | Renewable Energy News Article
- Presidential Commission reports on Synthetic Biology
- Algal Fuels: Just around the Corner or 10 Years Away?
- Lux Research: Innovation Will Grow Biofuels Market
- Gold Nanoparticles Could Turn Trees into Streetlights
- iGEM2010 Jamboree
- GM profit boost to non-GM crops
- BBC News - Which country has the best brains?
- BBC News - Nobel prize winners warn against immigration cap
- Gibson Assembly Song
- DIYbio articles in Nature
- Tracking, tuning, and terminating microbial physiology using synthetic riboregulators.
- Structural synthetic biotechnology: from molecular structure to predictable design for industrial strain development.
- Amyris IPO
- Microfluidic approaches for systems and synthetic biology.
- How close are we to nitrogen-fixing cereals?
- The Purple Cauliflower Arises from Activation of a MYB Transcription Factor.
- Deletion of the Cel48S cellulase from Clostridium thermocellum.
- Next-generation protein-rich potato expressing the seed protein gene AmA1 is a result of proteome rebalancing in transgenic tuber.
- DIYbio NYC on the BioBus
- Synthetic Biology Faculty position
- Synthetic Biology worth $4.5B by 2015
- Obama and Synthetic biology
- Royal Society: Future Technologies
- EuroSYNBIO Projects
- MIT Registry
- Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life
- National Academies SynBio grants
- Synbio in Society webcast
- Shell's $billions to convert Brazilian biomass into fuel
- RNAi patent jolt
- White House Planning Policy Group
- Designer life discussion
- Amyris info
- Synthetic Biology and defense
- Science and Design
MATERIALS
Paper
Pencil
Scissors
Glue
Alka-Seltzer tablets
Water
Empty film canister
STEP 1
Design your rocket, drawing it on paper. A simple cylinder, nose cone, and a pair of fins will suffice. It should stand around 6 inches (15 cm) tall and be approximately 1½ inches (3.75 cm) in diameter.
STEP 2
Cut out your rocket components (cylinder, nose cone, and fins) and glue them together.
STEP 3
Open the film canister and drop one-half of an Alka-Seltzer tablet into it.
STEP 4
Fill the canister half full of water and snap the canister cap into place. Slide the rocket over the cap, place the assembly cap-down, and get back. Watch the rocket blast off.
This project was excerpted from The Big Book Of Hacks: 264 Amazing DIY Tech Projects, a compendium of ingenious and hilarious projects for aspiring makers. Buy it here. And for more amazing hacks, go here.
Build And Launch A Mini-Rocket
(Via Popular Science - DIY.)
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