At Rafts4Biotech we want to foster open science and dissemination and thus we prepared this video protocol to share it with the whole scientific community. In just a few minutes you will learn how to isolate lipid rafts step by step. Ready? Click below!
The history of insulin production is a great example of how bacteria can really revolutionize our manufacturing strategies. These microbes work as miniature factories that we can engineer thanks to synthetic biology to produce a wide range of valuable products. Our partner Aimee Wessel from the Institut Pasteurs tell us all about it in the [...]
Back from your summer break? Don’t be sad, we want to make your return to work as bearable as possible so we have gathered August’s best BactToTheFuture stories for you! 1 These companies will revolutionise the way we eat thanks to #SyntheticBiology Hoppy beer without the hops, sugar-free sweets, or fungi-derived pet food are just [...]
In this month’s #MeetTheTeam video we introduce you to our project coordinator Daniel López and his lab at CNB-CSIC. From destroying bacterial lipid rafts to fight pathogens and infection to constructing synthetic rafts to improve biotechnological processes, Daniel and his team know all about these cellular microdomains! Watch this video and find out more! [...]
BactToTheFuture does not go on vacation and keeps sharing amazing synbio stories with us! Here is July’s top 10! 1. From meatless meat to animal free leather. Amazing products obtained thanks to #CellularAgriculture in #NewHarvest2018! Cells are the fields and factories of the future that will revolutionise the way we obtain daily products like meat, [...]
Spider silk made by goats, meatless meat brewed by yeast or animal-free leather produced by bacteria. For many, these inventions may sound like science-fiction, but they are real products available thanks to synthetic biology (synbio). A scientific field that remains unknown for most of the population, and we know what happens when scientific innovation moves [...]
It’s amazing how time flies! At Rafts4Biotech we just recently completed the first 18 months of our project and thus we gathered in Brussels for our first monitoring meeting with the EC officer Carmen de Vicente and the expert Mickaël Desvaux. All the work package leaders presented their achievements and it was a great [...]
We dive into the summer with this selection of refreshing synbio stories from BactToTheFuture! 1.We love #microbes. We love #art. Best way to combine them? #AgartArt! Yes. We love microbes and art so much that we decided to start a new section in BactToTheFuture dedicated to the two of them. We start with this amazing [...]
Lifelong learning is our mindset and thus, at Rafts4Biotech we are organising our first training activity this September 18th &19th . Our R4B Symposium will take place in Madrid and will have Lipid Membrane Eukaryotic & Prokaryotic Biology Symposium as a central topic, as membranes play a key role in our project. This symposium [...]
BactToTheFuture brought a lot of Synbio debate and amazing applications in May. Did you miss them? Don’t worry, we selected the Top10 for you! 1. If we want #Synbio in our lives, we have to talk about it. Applications, benefits, concerns, regulation. Let’s debate! Genetically modified organisms have been a very controversial topic for decades, [...]
