Engineering meets life sciences in synthetic biology – Varsity Online
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Engineering meets life sciences in synthetic biology
Varsity Online Manipulation of model organisms is a dream for many a scientist and synthetic biology has shown great advances in achieving this in the past two decades. Alex van der Wateren recounts some of the field’s achievements and explains how synthetic … |
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Gene circuit switches on inside cancer cells, triggers immune attack
MIT News “There has been a lot of clinical data recently suggesting that if you can stimulate the immune system in the right way you can get it to recognize cancer,” says Lu, who is head of the Synthetic Biology Group in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics … |
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Daily briefing: Xi’s power, Google’s Lyft bet and gene therapy
Financial Times How well did you keep up with the news this week? Take the FirstFT quiz. President Xi Jinping has used China’s communist party congress to consolidate his already immense power. China’s anti-corruption watchdog — which Mr Xi has used to tighten his … |