GMO perception in China

Public opinion and acceptance of biotechnology/GMO is essentially a supply-side economy: If scientists can’t talk in a language that resonates with the general public, misinformation will multiply and spread. Chinese, American, and European dislike of GMO all arose from disastrous…

A Peek into Ginko Bioworks: The Bitotech Company Creating New Smells

Ginko Bioworks is a biology lab that is focused on “hacking biology”. Christina Agapakis, their creative director, says that Ginko is literally working on speeding up evolution. On a very basic level, the…

Aditya,

This is a fantastic story. Thank you for taking the time to craft it. I hope that other members of the synthetic biology community follow your lead — I certainly will.

I am the co-founder of Gelzen, Inc. We are leveraging synthetic biology to make safe, sustainable and animal-free gelatin. We…

The First Ever Synthetic Biology Hackathon

I signed in at the desk at MIT’s Media Lab, greeted by the smiling face of a student in a lab coat. In front of me lay aisles of benchtops covered in gel boxes, PCR machines, centrifuges, vortexers and more. In the back of the room was a next-gen oligo…