GP-write Scientific Working Meeting was held at the Joseph P Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Since the May, 2017 meeting, the following nine working groups have been working hard on their charters, roadmaps and white papers and the Scientific Executive Committee has …
GP-write Announces ‘Ultra-safe Cells’ as Featured Community Project
Richard Feynman said, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” While the sequence of the human genome has been known for nearly 20 years, many mysteries in life’s recipe book remain to be solved. That’s why the leadership of Genome Project-write (GP-write), a project …
Building a Genome from Scratch: Lessons Learned from Sc2.0
If anyone understands the challenges associated with powering a eukaryotic cell with a designer genome built from scratch, it’s Leslie Mitchell, a postdoc in Jef Boeke’s lab at NYU. Mitchell has been leading experimental design and technological development for the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project (Sc2.0) since 2012. In this …
Building the Trust Infrastructure for Synthetic Biology
By: Tracy Lessor, PhD, MBA Senior Leader, Science Communications Feinstein Kean Healthcare Jurassic World. Orphan Black. Splice. Helix. Synthetic biology is the inspiration behind these and many other popular science fiction movies and television series, and it seems that the public cannot get enough …
Never Bored and Never Done
By: Natalie Kuldell President, The BioBuilder Educational Foundation Instructor, MIT Department of Biological Engineering Bill Gates told Wired magazine that if he were a kid today, he’d want to be hacking biology. But how will the next generation of biocoders learn the language of DNA …
Engineering Biology for Science & Industry: Accelerating Progress, Meeting Summary and Next Steps
The Engineering Biology for Science & Industry: Accelerating Progress meeting in April had a standing room only crowd, with enthusiastic dialogue about what is required to accelerate progress in engineering biology, and lots of support for moving forward. The discussions were captured in a meeting summary and …
International Team of Engineering Biology Experts to Spotlight Designer Genomes, Engineering Biology and Societal Implications
Which designer genome will be synthesized from scratch next? What are the societal implications of designer genomes? How can we gain public acceptance of these technologies in light of recent visible events, such as the controversy over germ line editing using CRISPR? An international group …
Engineering Biology for Science & Industry: Accelerating Progress
The U.S. has been a world leader in the emerging field of engineering biology, producing more high-impact foundational and translational research – and commercial products – than any other nation. A new strategic direction for engineering biology is greatly needed, however, or the U.S. will …
Biological Containment: Safety Step on the Pathway to Bioengineering Solutions
Unaffordable healthcare. Unsustainable fuels and industrial chemicals. Environmental pollution. Lack of sufficient food supplies for a rapidly growing population. There is one thing each of these pressing, real-world problems has in common: their potential solution. Synthetic biology, a novel branch of science that enables …