Tag Archives: Synthetic biology

Researchers at MIT. coming from different fields of expertise, have created a pill that you can swallow to check for inflammatory condition of your gut. The magic lies in how this pill has been created. First researchers working in the area of synthetic biology have genetically modified e-coli bacteria in …

We, as lay people, have learnt -the hard way- that viruses change their shape to avoid our immune system weaponry. The Covid-19 variants, Alpha, Beta, Delta, Omicron… is a point in case, possibly the one that has draw our attention to this nasty habit of viruses. However, well before Covid-19, …

As conclusion to my talk in the MediRes AI Program I spoke about the future of Healthcare. Of course it is a very broad subject and my focus was on the use of Digital Twins and Personal Digital Twins. I came up with the circle diagram shown in the picture. Healthcare …

From Genome Sequencing to Artificial Human Genome The progress in genome sequencing has been so significant that in 20 years we have moved from a billion $ endeavour to obtain the first genome sequence to a mass market offering of sequencing. There is still quite a bit of confusion on …

Molecular robotics The progress of technology that allows us to manipulate the DNA, CRISPR and others, is allowing researcher to create DNA that can serve specific purposes, outside of its usual cell environment where it is used to create copy of mRNA that are used by the cell to build …

Computational Biology As remarked in the previous posts on Synthetic Biology, this is an area where no progress would be possible without the support of computers and AI. More than that: in the last few years progress has been fostered by computational approaches to the point of creating a new …

The last Megatrend presented in the FTI’s report focusses on Synthetic Biology and its application in Agriculture. Synthetic Biology is the idea, now a practice, of being able to create/modify life in a bottom up way, composing the strand of life, DNA and in some cases RNA, in ways that …

Synthetic Biology was born at the turn of the century but it got serious in 2010 when researchers at the JCVI (J.Craig Venter Institute) were able to create, by syntheses, the first fully working bacteria genome. The problem facing synthetic biology was to move from “syntheses by chance” to an …

We often refer to the DNA in our cells as the program, the code of life. Scientists are learning to exploit these characteristics of DNA and to alter them to create “new programs”, as an example to create bacteria that can dissolve an oil spill by digesting the oil decomposing …

RNA, ribonucleic acid, is used in our cells to transport information coded in the DNA to the ribosome and then to manufacture protein.  Some speculates that RNA pre-dates the DNA in the evolution process since it is the essential component for proteins production and these are the building blocks of …