The immortal cell line that changed synthetic biology’s relationship with patients
Scientists have been able to culture microorganisms since the late [...]
New tech, new rules: a renewed conversation on biosafety in the age of applied recombinant DNA
Nowadays, genetic engineering is a common practice in many laboratories [...]
A sea of data: how systems biology is helping to crack and tame the networks of life
The human body is made of approximately 50 trillion cells [...]
Building life: the far side of synthetic biology
Life is complex, we can agree. But millions of years [...]
Fighting evolution: the stability challenge in synthetic biology
In synthetic biology, we seek to engineer reliable and predictable [...]
«Biology will never be an exact science»: why context matters in standardisation
In the last decade, we have witnessed how standardisation has [...]
Change of perspective: combining a restriction enzyme and standard plasmids to accelerate genome engineering
In genome modification processes, nucleases play a key role. Thanks [...]
How to avoid failures of reproducibility in synthetic biology
In 2012, Glenn Begly was serving as director of haematology [...]
From the first standards to SEVA
Nowadays, SEVA is a well-established resource for vector architecture and [...]