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In the journals 30 May 2011

The 'art' of governing synthetic biology

New LSE report funded by the Royal Society Science Policy Group

News 2 May 2011

BIOFAB on Radio 4

Drew Endy interviewed on 'Material World'

News 2 May 2011

Synthetic Biology film competition

Vote for your favourite entry in Bio:Fiction

News 27 April 2011

New synthetic biology centre launched at UC Berkeley

Synthetic Biology Institute partners with Agilent Technologies

In the journals 21 March 2011

Recent articles by Network members

Papers on model annotation and DNA assembly

News 21 February 2011

E.chromi up for Design of the Year

Designers in the spotlight with synthetic biology project

News 15 January 2011

Home labs on the rise

New York Times article on DIY-scientists

News 16 December 2010

The Ethics of Synthetic Biology

Presidential Commission Report stops short of calling for new laws for SynBio

In the journals 2 December 2010

Cultured Multipotent Plant Cells

Network members involved in work yielding new chassis cell with great potential.

News 1 December 2010

iGEM-UK strikes again!

UK iGEM teams shine at the 2010 Jamboree

In the journals 14 September 2010

A whole lot of noise

Nature review article on noise in genetic circuits

News 13 September 2010

New Synthetic Biology journal launched

Symplectic Biology

News 13 September 2010

Democs report released

Results of the Genomics Forum's public dialogue now available

News 18 June 2010

Talking Synthetic Biology

Launch of Synthetic Biology Dialogue Report

News 25 May 2010

Venter does it again

Landmark paper published by the J. Craig Venter Institute

News 14 April 2010

Designer Life

Debate at Edinburgh International Science Festival

News 3 March 2010

Biology is Technology

new book by Rob Carlson

In the journals 3 March 2010

Redesigning ribosomes

Nature paper by the Chin lab

News 3 March 2010

Synthetic biology in the New York Times

Weekend feature on the 2009 iGEM competition

News 10 February 2010

BIOFAB

New parts BioFAB opens in California with seed money from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

In the journals 14 December 2009

Synthetic biology special

Nature Biotechnology December 2009 issue

News 10 November 2009

iGEM glory!

UK teams shine at the 2009 iGEM jamboree

News 3 August 2009

FUNDING SUCCESS!

SynBioStandards Network members strike gold at the EPSRC/NSF sandpit

Network news 3 August 2009

Networkers in the News

Podcasts for holiday listening

In the journals 25 June 2009

Networkers contribute to special issue of 'Interface'

Special issue on synthetic biology

Latest reports 20 June 2009

Synthetic Biology: Public Dialogue on Synthetic Biology

Royal Academy of Engineering Report on public attitudes to synthetic biology

Latest reports 21 May 2009

Royal Academy of Engineering Report

-- new RAEng report on synthetic biology published

News 1 May 2009

DIYbio -- What do you think?

Take part in our online poll about DIYbio...

News 9 April 2009

40th Anniversary of the RFC

The RFC is 40 years old this week

Latest reports 3 April 2009

New Life, Old Bottles

-- Report published by Woodrow Wilson Centre on Regulating First-Generation Products of Synthetic Biology

News 24 February 2009

Funding for Scottish iGEM teams

SULSA (the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance) announces sponsorship for Scottish iGEM teams

News 30 January 2009

New centre for synthetic biology launched at Imperial College London

EPSRC funds a new Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation at Imperial College London

In the journals 12 December 2008

December 2008 issue of BioSocieties

-- Jane Calvert discusses intellectual property issues for synthetic biology

News 25 November 2008

SB4.0 reports from Hong Kong

Networkers who took part in SB4.0 share some of their reflections on the conference.

In the journals 25 November 2008

October 2008 issue of Current Opinion in Biotechnology

-- Special issue on metabolic engineering

Network news 20 November 2008

BioBricks Foundation Release Wave of RFCs

Tom Knight has made a number of RFCs available, some historical and some new.

News 11 November 2008

iGEM 2008 results

UK teams win medals at the iGEM 2008 Jamboree

Network news 17 October 2008

Networker profiled in Science Careers

Kim de Mora featured in 17 October 2008 Science Careers article.

News 16 October 2008

Network Adventures in Hong Kong

SynBioStandards Network well represented at SB4.0

In the journals 30 September 2008

Interview with Drew Endy in BioSocieties

Synthetic biologists interviewed in the September 2008 issue of BioSocieties.

In the journals 5 August 2008

Nature Biotechnology, July 2008

has two articles on the subject of standardisation

Latest reports 5 August 2008

'Synthetic biology: Risks and opportunities of an emerging field'

is published by the International Risk Governance Council

Network news 5 August 2008

Travel grants awarded for SB4.0

The Network has awarded a number of travel bursaries to help members to attend the SB4.0 conference in Hong Kong in October

News 4 August 2008

Ethics report sparks public debate

'Synthetic Biology: Social and ethical challenges', was published on 9 June

News 16 July 2008

Seven UK synthetic biology networks announced

The SynBioStandards Network is one of seven networks established as a joint inititative between four UK research councils with the aim of building the UK's expertise and capacity in this emerging field, while also ensuring public engagement from the off.