Insecticides and mosquito nets only get you so far. Synthetic biologists are ready to take the battle against mosquito-borne disease to the level of DNA – which might spell the insects’ ultimate doom.
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Australia is to play a significant role in the quest for artificial life as it joins an international project to create the world’s first synthetic yeast, we can announce today. Under the leadership of…
Synthetic biology is an emerging discipline, but paradoxically it is not particularly new. Since the mid-1970s we have been developing ways of instructing pieces of biology to perform useful tasks in an…
Scientists in the US have developed a calculator from living cells, using old-fashioned analog programming. Their hope is that the technology could be used in the future to program cells to kill cancer…
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Doctoral Student in Biochemistry, University of Washington
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Professor - Emerging Technologies (Stem Cells) at The University of Melbourne and Group Leader - Stem Cell Ethics & Policy at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Responsible Innovation, Arizona State University
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Director, Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO
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Professor of History and Philosophy, and Deputy Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,, University of Utah
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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Australian National University
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Personal Chair in Synthetic Biological Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Macquarie University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Biology, Harvard University
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Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University
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Director, Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, University of Maryland
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Professor of Bioengineering, University of Maryland
