SynBERC bioengineers launch world's first biological design-build facilty
With seed money from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SynBERC bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to characterize the...
View ArticleNY Times profiles hardscrabble iGEM team from SF
The New York Times is running a long piece on one team's efforts in the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition at MIT:read more
View ArticleYeast Synthetic Biology Workshop
The Yeast Synthetic Biology Workshop took place on Saturday October 16, 2010 at UC San Francisco's Genentech Hall. Generously supported by Life Technologies, this one-day workshop was in response to a...
View ArticleWelcome to SynBERC
The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) is a multi-institution research effort to lay the foundation for the emerging field of synthetic biology. SynBERC’s vision is to catalyze...
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UC Berkeley announces Synthetic Biology degree concentration
Terry Johnson, UC Berkeley BioengineeringUC Berkeley's top-ranked Bioengineering Department announced the creation of a Synthetic Biology concentration in Bioengineering. The concentration represents...
View ArticleBIOFAB presents latest technical developments at BIO Pacific Rim Summit
SynBERC investigators Drew Endy and Vivek Mutalik represented the SynBERC BIOFAB: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit on December 12, 2010 in Honolulu,...
View ArticleBacteria's puppeteers: Achieving modular transcriptional logic with unnatural...
Small-molecule regulation of gene expression is intrinsic to cellular function and indispensable to the construction of new biological sensing, control and expression systems. However, there are...
View ArticleRewriting E. coli’s genetic code
SynBERC researchers at Harvard are a step closer to engineering new "words" in the DNA language of bacteria by co-opting one of the codons in its genetic code to give it new meaning. In the July 15...
View ArticleSynBERC’s Doug Densmore Part of Boston University’s “Synthetic Biology Dream...
Doug Densmore, along with James Collins, Ahmad “Mo” Khalil and Wilson W. Wong, is part of the synthetic biology team at BU. Khalil earned a PhD at MIT, which is a member of SynBERC, the Synthetic...
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