Rafts4Biotech blog
September Top10 BactToTheFuture stories
1. The ink of these tattoos is teeming with #AwesomeMicrobes!🖋🦠Meet the first ‘living’ tattoos 👇 Bacteria are so versatile that they can do almost everything… even turning into tattoos! Researchers have developed a ‘biologic’ [...]
MycoSynVac: when synbio gives vaccine developers the boost they need
Vaccines have saved millions of lives worldwide. They banished smallpox from the face of the Earth in 1980, and other diseases like polio or malaria are going the same way. However, there are diseases that [...]
#FutureOfSynbio – Uwe Sauer
Same, same but different! What are the boundaries between genetic engineering, biotechnology, and synthetic biology? Our partner Uwe Sauer from ETHZ tells us about it in our latest episode of the #FutureOfSynbio! [...]
August Top10 BactToTheFuture stories
1. Beautiful, sustainable and bacteria-made! 🦠These #AwesomeMicrobes can turn your clothes into a riot of colours! 🌈 Our Awesome Microbes of August are ready to go through the catwalk! Bacteria like Streptomyces coelicolor [...]
Bacterial scrappers: when microbes get rid of chemical waste
Industrial manufacturing produces lots of intermediate by-products. And the problem of industrial waste is a growing one. Decomposing these discarded substances usually takes a lot of resources, reaction plants… and the waste material has to [...]
#FutureOfSynbio – Amanda van Tilburg
The future of synbio could revolutionise the way we obtain animal products like meat or milk. Watch our latest video to discover more about Cellular Agriculture!Â
