Rafts4Biotech blog
Stepping back to move forward
A long time has passed since Leeuwenhoek used a handmade microscope to describe the existence of microorganisms in the XVIIth century and since then, our knowledge about these tiny creatures has massively increased. He provided [...]
November Top10 BacToTheFuture Stories
1. Turning food waste into bioplastic thanks to #synbio! ♻️ More than $1 trillion worth of food is wasted every year, and to fight this global squandering, this young entrepreneur has come with an idea [...]
#MeetThePartners – Uwe Völker
Uwe Völker’s expertise in proteomics helps us optimising the production processes that we study at Rafts4Biotech. Watch the latest episode from our #MeetThePartner series and get to know his work! [...]
R4B Symposium – The video
It was a pleasure to have so many international researchers joining us in Madrid last September for our first R4B Symposium! We enjoyed the meeting very much and so did our guests! We collected [...]
October top10 BactToTheFuture stories
1. Bacteria can help fighting #phenylketonuria! They just need a little #synbio help! #pku A pill with engineered E. coli could become the ultimate treatment for phenylketonuria patients. People with this genetic disorder are unable [...]
#FutureOfSynbio – Veronika Stepankova
What does the future hold for synthetic biology? The outlook of this field is for sure very promising but there may be different paths ahead of it in both the academic and the industrial [...]
