Christmas season just ended, and there’s a good chance you heard John Lennon’s “Xmas Time” on the radio. Lennon wrote the song with Yoko Ono as a Vietnam War protest as well, singing near the end, “The war is over, if...
The Global Synthetic Biology Summit
September 29 - October 1, 2020
Bay Area - California, The Oakland Marriott
The Global Synthetic
Biology Summit
Biology Summit
September 29 - October 1, 2020
Bay Area - California, The Oakland Marriott
The End Of The Flu: Can We Immunize The World Against A Seasonal Killer?
We’re entering a deadly time of year, as flu traverses the globe and ends hundreds of thousands of lives. It need not be this way, and several synthetic biology projects are working to create next-generation universal flu vaccines.
Is California’s Salad Bowl the next Silicon Valley?
Biotechnology can yield novel solutions to improve agricultural practices. With an economy driven by agriculture, Salinas is the perfect place for the next biotechnology revolution.
How Aquaculture Innovation Can Save Seafood
Our appetites for large, carnivorous fish such as salmon and tuna are breaking down ocean ecosystems. But there may be a way to get the best of fish while eliminating fish from the equation: microalgae.
Will Concord Be The Bay Area’s Next Tech Hub?
Concord, just 29 miles East of San Francisco, may host the Bay Area’s next tech boom. That is, if the city can finalize the purchase of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station.
Editors' picks
How Aquaculture Innovation Can Save Seafood
Oceans once teeming with life are being whittled away. Larger, predatory fish – salmon and tuna included – are now estimated to be at less than 10% of their pre-industrial levels. Historical data from coastal ecosystems...
How The Cloud Can Solve Life Science’s Big Data Problem
These days, biotech R&D is as much a data problem as a science problem. Here’s why: in the past decade, the exploding field of synthetic biology has done an incredible job solving the scientific challenges of making...
