We are proud to have Lord David Prior of Brampton as a keynote speaker for SynBioBeta London 2017. Lord Prior was recently appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in December 2016, [...]
Biology has been on a relentless march towards becoming more of an engineering discipline through the processes of modularization and standardization. Through this process, the costs of conducting biological research are dropping precipitously, thereby enabling more and more people to [...]
This year, 273 teams coming from 6 continents attended the iGEM Giant Jamboree. The energy was electrifying as students buzzed around, setting up their posters, stressing about their presentations, and forging friendships across nationalities that will last a lifetime! iGEM, [...]
The human microbiome is the term used to describe the community of microbes that colonize the human body. Most people don’t appreciate the significance of the microbiome, especially in the United States where we are seemingly obsessive about the use [...]
Everybody has been hearing that we are transitioning into an age of personalized medicine, but what does that really mean? In this session, titled “Engineered Cell Therapies and Antibodies,” four leaders in the field, Dr. Vincent Mauro from Promosome, Dr. [...]
Dr. Yin Li is a nationally influential figure in the Chinese synthetic biology community and one to pay attention to over the next several years. With his focus on industrial biotechnology, Dr. Li has risen through the ranks to become [...]
