Purple may be a likely color for extraterrestrial organisms, research suggests trib.al/ZJOaDrI

I remember that room! 😀

Koji mould - used in Japan since ancient times to ferment foods like sake, miso and soy sauce 🍶 - could hold the key to better-tasting meat analogues with a superior texture, according to a team of researchers at Berkeley Lab. #SyntheticBiology
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Genetic engineering of material-producing bacteria creates pigmented products, according to a paper in Nature Biotechnology. go.nature.com/3J4SkbB

More than 250 students on 47 Teams in 11 States and from 4 Countries. #betterthanever #BioBuilderClub #FinalAssembly
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We Octant Bio went fully in office for all roles (including bus/SWE/DS) when everyone was vacc’d in early ‘21. I’ve not yet seen the level of pace, learning, problem solving, trust and joy you can achieve in person possible through remote work. That said, I might be wrong.

The weird thing is that BE/BME is in the middle. This really is basic biology.

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Congratulations to Prof Jacquin Niles for his induction into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows for pioneering contributions in developing synthetic biology approaches to study plasmodium falciparum and develop new treatment strategies for malaria.

BREAKING: CRISPR edited pig kidney transplanted into living patient. Scientists used CRISPR to make 69 changes to the pig kidney, removing harmful pig genes, adding human genes and making other edits to prevent the transmission of pig viruses. wbur.org/news/2024/03/2…

Today we announced our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2023 and reviewed corporate updates. Learn more: lnkd.in/e-8ktVGJ
#celltherapy #CARNK $SNTI

I wish I'd found this paper years ago. Table 1 has a straight-up list of golden gate overhangs that work well and play nice with each other, up to a 30-piece assembly. No more choosing four random bases and hoping. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Growing glowing plants!

Effects of Komodo dragon bite

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BE PhD Program alum Christina “Chris” Birch was among the 12-member astronaut candidates (three MIT alumni) graduating from basic training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, March 5. ow.ly/mLK650QO4yq @nasa

What a ride to be leading this effort to solve T cell recognition - incredible opportunity and team, and 5 years to throw everything we have at it. Thanks Cancer Grand Challenges National Cancer Institute The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research for the award - and Koch Institute at MIT MIT Dept of BE Ragon Institute for the continual support

As BHM ends, it's comforting that we have allies who continue help in the struggle against racial injustice & discrimination. Thank you Tae Seok Moon for the courage to pen this ordeal in Science Magazine & for advocating for equality & justice. Black child you can 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 #BHM

50 plant and agriculture papers in Nature Communications, many of which are in synthetic biology. nature.com/collections/jg…

We're hiring! We're taking another big leap in using synthetic biology to engineer materials - this time for sustainable food and textiles. In the next few weeks, we've up to 4 postdoc positions opening up. I'd love to hear from anyone interested in joining us this year. Pls RT🔁

A multiplexed, confinable CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive can propagate in caged Aedes aegypti populations by Alphey Lab, Michelle Anderson, @Aestadea and co at University of York #synbio #BiotechNatureComms

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