intro to synthbio

Andrew Hessel, pioneer in synthetic biology, discusses the similarities between computing and biology during a talk at Singularity University.

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singularityu

Daniel Reda’s talk on biotechnology and bioinformatics at the Singularity University.

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presentation @ szeged

This was my presentation at Szeged, in the first session called “Gene isolation strategies in the genomic era” of the 8th International Symposium on “New development in green gene technology”. More stuff later.

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new developments in green gene technology

Tomorrow (today?) starts the conference called New developments in green gene technology at Szeged. I will give a talk in the first section, called “Gene isolation strategies in the genomic era”. My topic doesn’t fit into this very well, but I suspect that the organizers were hunting for people all summer, so I’ll have 20+5 [...]

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define: biopunk

I was digging into the interwebz for some more information on biopunk, how to define it, or is it even a living subculture, and found the following, besides the obvious stuff listed in the sidebar, or in wikipedia.
There is a short story in Nature (yes, Nature occasionally publishes short sci-fi stories, even Warren Ellis wrote [...]

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pimp my genome!

The video is ‘Pimp my Genome!, The mainstreaming of Digital Genetic Engineering’ a Google Tech Talk by Andrew Hessel. He is a biologist, promoting synthetic and open source/DIY biology, open innovation models, and was involved in the iGEM  project, besides numerous other research ideas. This was the state of biopunk in 2007. Two years is [...]

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biopunk

A biopunk egy biotech, bioinf csináld-magad szubkultúra némi evolúcióelmélettel, memetikával, szkepticizmussal, futurizmussal és hacker kultúrával körítve.

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