Introducing the “Lego blocks” of synthetic biology — What’s up! Over the past little while, I have been grinding through papers, only wishing that someone had dissected them down to be more comprehensible… so here I am with s2: gene circuit design and modelling (+ help from GPT)! …

Kermit’s feeling insecure about his “greenness”. Let’s make E. coli glow green and red so he feels less lonely during the holidays 🎄 — Intro To engineer an E. coli bacteria to glow green and red, we will insert a SiriusGFP gene into a pUC19 plasmid through molecular cloning. But first, let’s break it down a bit. Let’s visualize a plasmid as a car. First, we have the car frame, which would contain nothing but…

Welcome to the kingdom of synthetic biology — “The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore’s Law. It’s been doing that since 2005, and it’s likely to continue.” — Stewart Brand Introduction Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that combines biology with other branches of engineering, such electrical and computer…

“What could happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them…” — Richard Feynman — 1.6 million kilometre square, 1.8 trillion pieces, and 80 thousand tons in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastic waste is hardly a foreign term to us — it’s everywhere around us, and now, even inside of us. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a waters spanning from the West Coast…