Synthetic biology-based #biofortification of crop plants may be the key to addressing hidden #hunger caused by chronic #micronutrient deficiencies, which affect billions of people. Learn more in this #OpenAccess mini-review!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13934
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An old friend of mine has a blog about #synBio, #genomics, and #biology. Here's the first post in a series on genome sequencing technology:
https://editlife.substack.com/p/part-1-the-dna-sequencing-arms-race
Life, Edited · Part 1: The DNA Sequencing Arms Race and the Fight to Dethrone Illumina
Scientists found a way to clean up #methylmercury, a dangerous pollutant that builds up in our #environment due to human activities. Fish & flies can be engineered to break down this form of #mercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, tackling related #pollution & #foodsafety issues. Species at the top of #foodwebs, incl. humans, can accumulate #mercury at levels that harm neural & reproductive health: https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/february-2025/scientists-engineer-fish-and-flies-to-clean-up-toxic-mercury #health #synbio
The Lighthouse · Scientists engineer fish and flies to clean up toxic mercury
To secure crop production in the face of #climatechange, holistic solutions are needed, which involve a combination of #plantbreeding, transgenesis & #geneediting, as well as emerging #syntheticbiology tools that increase the precision & rate of crop improvement: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.001 #synbio
doi.orgResilient plants, sustainable futureThe accelerated pace of climate change over the past several years should serve as a wake-up call for all scientists, farmers, and decision makers, as…
Meet Evo, the DNA-trained AI that creates genomes from scratch; ChatGPT-like model learns on its own to devise new proteins and genetic sequences
"In theory, malicious users could exploit a model like Evo to design a biological weapon, Hie says, so the researchers banished from the AI’s training set sequences from any viruses that attack humans or other eukaryotes, the organisms whose cells boast nuclei."
I'm sure that's 100% effective in a system that "hallucinates" by design. Reminds me of a research project from years ago, this scientist was making a database of genetic sequences that never occur in nature, thereby they would be assumed incompatible with life. #synbio #AI https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-evo-dna-trained-ai-creates-genomes-scratch
The strangest result I have seen recently, was today in lab meeting, from this article that we were discussing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-021-00927-y
Retrons are weird hybrid DNA-RNA structures, that include a characteristic "hairpin" structure such as in the picture.
In this study, they wanted to understand how the size of this hairpin influences the production of the retron.
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Ein Team @Bode_Lab @mpi_Marburg und Michael Groll @TU_Muenchen entwickelte mittels #NRPS Engineering einen selektiveren Hemmstoff für das Immunoproteasom - Potenzial für künftige Autoimmun-Therapien #Synbio #Medizin #Autoimmunkrankheiten
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/08/16/hybride-pfeilspitze-gegen-autoimmunerkrankungen
Ein erster Schritt zu selbsterhaltenden zellfreien #synbio Systemen für nachhaltige #Biotechnologie 
: @simone_giaveri @erblabs @mpi_marburg verbindet erstmals in vitro einen synthetischen Stoffwechsel mit Genexpression - mit #CO2 als Rohstoff.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/07/11/ein-motor-fuer-den-zellfreien-stoffwechsel
Hello!
I'm a synthetic developmental biologist at The University of Edinburgh.
I'm interested in understanding how cells influence their neighbours in mammalian models of #DevBio and disease.
I use #SynBio to identify neighbours of cells of interest (e.g. healthy neighbours of mutant cells), and to engineer cell behaviour in response to these interactions.
I do this in pluripotent #StemCells and their derivatives.
I look forward to keeping up with everyone's cool research!
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I sell open source synthetic biology software and open source synthetic biology software accessories.
Hello, everyone! Ani here. I trained as a microbiologist. In the lab I worked on methanogens, genetic code expansion, and inserting unnatural amino acids into proteins.
I’ve spent the past 15 years helping scientists grow communities and journals at professional societies. But I still have a hard time explaining just what it is that I do (there are some links in my bio that might help). My posts may be unrelated to my work too. 
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Hello!
I am an assistant professor at the Faculdade de Ciências of the University of Lisbon & #research group leader at Nova Medical School, Lisbon, #Portugal.
Our lab is interested in #genetics, #physiology, #neurobiology, #behavior, #development, #evolution, #synbio, #bioengineering, #diseasemodelling, and we use #Drosophila, #stemcells, and #computationalbiology approaches.
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