Growing PLOS Synbio Blog Community
Hello PLOS Synbio community! Our online forum is growing! Last month we welcomed the addition of a new editor, Sam Million-Weaver, and now I get to introduce myself as a regular contributor. My name is...
View ArticleMammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop 3 Recap
Last weekend over 200 researchers met on MIT’s campus for a day and a half workshop to discuss the progress and future directions of mammalian synthetic biology. The third annual meeting was co-chaired...
View ArticleEngineered Probiotics as Living Medicine
0000-0003-0319-5416Modern medicine has found many ways to use a pill of chemicals to improve human health for people around the world. Drugs are taken for infections, cancer treatment, metabolic...
View ArticleEngineered bacteria to detect gut inflammation
0000-0003-0319-5416I wrote about engineered probiotics at the beginning of 2017, and the field continued throughout 2017 with more papers and startup news using engineered bacteria in the gut. For...
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