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GMU:Synthetic Biology/ReCoBRAIN

2010-09-27T20:45:12Z

Laura iGem:

=ReCoBrain - pictures of my mind=
* series of characteristic pictures for the webshop
** first sketches from the black board are coming soon

==timetable==
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|09/27 || timetable || [[User:Lorenz|Lorenz]] || yes || feel free to add / edit some points
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|09/29 || upload of sketches || Christian || not yet || has to be figured out
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|09/30 || submission of brain images || Philipp || not yet || has to be figured out
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|10/01 || list for requisites || Sebastian || not yet || has to be figured out
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|10/04 || precise picture descriptions! || all || not yet || has to be figured out
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|10/04 || booking of photographers a.s.a.p. || Sebastian || not yet || has to be figured out
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|10/04-10 || between this dates pictures will be taken || all || not yet || has to be figured out
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|10/15 || preparation of pictures (post-production) || all || not yet || has to be figured out
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|10/18 || finishing webshop entry || all || not yet || has to be figured out
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=ReCoBrain - Der Film=
== Konzept ReCoBrain Video/ Grundidee ( circa 45 sek.) ==

''Halbtotale Wohnzimmer:''

Ein junger Mann zieht sich langsam an, sucht seine Klamotten. Das Flackern eines Fernsehers ist auf den Möbeln zu sehen.
''Aus dem OFF (Fernseher):'' Sprecher preist ReCoBrain auf Englisch an.(... "Kennen Sie das? Der Abwasch steht rum, keine Zeit für Sport. Wir haben die Lösung für Sie! Mit ReCoBrain erledigen Sie lästige Aufgaben wie im Schlaf. Und so funktioniert es:"..... etc.)
Der junge Mann findet seine Jacke, es ist eine Armee-Uniform. Er zieht seine Stiefel an und schnürt sie zu. Er erhebt sich

''Kameraschwenk''

und bewegt sich vor den Fernseher. Auf dem Fernsehbildschirm hinter dem Soldaten sieht man eine junge Frau, die mit unbewegtem Blick auf dem Laufband läuft. An ihrer Schläfe ist ein zweifarbiger Knopf befestigt. Das Bild der Frau verschwindet und ein ReCoBrain-Schriftzug erscheint, mit einem Logo, das ähnlich dem Knopf an der Schläfe der Frau ist.
Der Soldat bückt sich aus dem Bild. Er kommt wieder hoch und hat den gleichen Knopf an der Schläfe. Er drückt ihn. Auf dem Fernseher verschwindet der ReCoBrain-Schriftzug und das Logo wird größer. Es wird erkennbar, dass es sich um ein Gehirn handelt, dieses verändert sich. Der Soldat verlässt mit unbewegtem Blick das Bild, der Fernseher, auf dem das Gehirn "wabert", läuft ein paar Sekunden weiter. ENDE

Aufgaben Jana bis zum Drehtermin:
Vorproduktion Animation ( bzw. alles, was auf dem Fernseher zu sehen ist, damit auch Drehgenehmigung Fitnessstudio), Requisite

Aufgaben Anna bis zum Drehtermin:
Kameratechnik, Kostüm, Schauspieler, Sprecher (native speaker)

Bereits vorhanden:
Location Wohnzimmer, Tonequipment, Catering

===Szenenspiel===
*''Schulterblick (dritte Person) des Anwenders, sichtlich im Unterhemd''
*''trister Raum mit TV-Gerät, dort beginnt gerade der Aufmerksamkeit erregende Werbefilm''
** der Raum sollte keine landestypischen Requisiten enthalten, nur anonyme Möbel

==Werbefilm==
* typisch amerikanisch: ein Proband, ein Erklärer
** Frau läuft im Fitnessstudio auf Laufband, zweite Person erklärt das Produkt dabei
* “...blabla" (''end of previous commercial'')
* ''second female (Rita), entering the gym and walking slowly towards Patricia, who is exercising on the cross-trainer) (advertising voice)'': "Are you working a full-time job? Managing your family in you r free time? Does your day consist of chores you do not enjoy anymore, and on top of this you do not have time for staying fit and healthy? We have just the solution for you! Leave all the boring parts of you life behind you with RECOBRAIN!”
*(''more explanatory''): "RECOBRAIN will do your work for you! Whether you need to prepare meals for your family, clean your house or work out. RECOBRAIN consists of a set of purely synthetic neurons that can be integrated into your brain and control your motoric function while the rest of you brain is perfectly asleep! This way you will get all the rest you need and at the same time you don't have to waste your time anymore! Look at Patricia! Ever since she has discovered RECOBRAIN, she's enjoying every waking moment of her life and never has to worry about keeping fit! Before RECOBRAIN, her life consisted of her job and working out at the gym, but now she can do all this in her sleep and spend the rest of her time with friends and family!"
*(''now more advertising again''): "You, your family and friends can all enjoy the advantages of RECOBRAIN today! The first 100 callers will get 10% off! Call 1-800-RECOBRAIN and order your own personal synthetic neural network now!
Slogan “Don't be lame – use RECOBRAIN"
* “100% biodegradable. Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen... look for english phrase!
* see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5msMVc724&p=E42B5E8170C891C9&index=10&playnext=2 youtube]

==Requisiten==
===Recobrain Bedienelement===
Wie soll es aussehen? Es sollte minimalistisch sein, organisch, NICHT KYBERNETISCH! Das ist sehr wichtig. Ich dachte an eine zellulaer moegliche Veraenderung, die keinen Ekel hervorruft. Vielleicht etwas mit fluoreszenz, eine art nerv unter der Haut, aber nicht zu trashy. habe kein beispielbild gefunden.

[[Media:Recobrain.doc | Hier]] erste konkrete konzeptionelle Überlegungen.
Bald wird das ganze in Stichpunkt-Form auch hier erscheinen, damit alle mitarbeiten und verbessern können.

[[Image:Raum1.jpg | 600px | erster Raum-Entwurf für den Dreh | erster Raum-Entwurf für den Dreh]]
[[User:Lorenz|Lorenz]] 17:59, 10 September 2010 (CEST)

===Zeitplan - Platzhalter===

XX/YY Drehbuch fertig 
XX/YY Drehtermin Werbefilm Sportstudio Ort: 
XX/YY Drehtermin Hauptsequenz Ort: 

===Drehbuch - Platzhalter===

Das Drehbuch ist hier verlinkt: www.drehbuch.de/Drehbuch/Drehbuch.pdf 

===Locations - Platzhalter===

Sportzentrum Fleischberg angefragt, Ansprechpartner: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tel: 
Emmas Bruchbude, Emma: 01632384035 

===Schauspieler - Platzhalter===

Unsere Besetzung:

Soldat Tom Hanks 
Freundin Natalie Portman 
Reco-Sportler Jean-Claude van Damme 
Sportler 1 Christoph Maria Herbst 
Sportler 2 Eva Green 
Mutter Mario Adorf 

...

=ReCoBrain - Das Produkt=

=== eine kleine Anregung aus der Literatur ===
<blockquote>"Irgendwann werden wir alle das ARPANET im Kopf haben, sagt er. Wir alle werden kleine Computerchips im Gehirn haben. Man wird sie irgendwo in der Schädelbasis implantieren, und dann werden wir einander durch bloßes Denken Nachrichten schicken können. (...) Mir gefällt dieser Gedanke. Das ist cool. Und es ist möglich. Dann brauchen wir nicht mal mehr Telefonleitungen. Die Leute glauben uns nicht, aber es stimmt. Eines Tages wird man bloß an etwas denken müssen, un schon geschieht es. ''Mach das Licht aus'', und schon geht das Licht aus. ''Mach Kaffee'', und schon fängt die Kaffeemaschine an zu gurgeln"</blockquote>
::: aus dem Roman "DIE GROSSE WELT" von Colum McCann (Deutsch von Dirk van Gunsteren)
[[User:Lorenz|Lorenz]] 00:25, 19 August 2010 (CEST)

==Produkt der Synthetischen Biologie==

ReCoBRAIN, die neueste Errungenschaft der Synthetischen Neurobiologie, ist ein neuronales Implantat aus lebendigen Nervenzellenzellen. Einmal injiziert bilden sich die einzelnen Neuronen zu einem Gewebe aus und verbinden Teile des Gedächtnises, des cerebralen Ruhenetzwerkes (Default Mode Networks) und weiterer Hirnregionen zu einem neuronalen Netzwerk – zu ReCoBRAIN.

==Das neuronale Upgrade für Jedermann==

ReCoBRAIN versetzt den Benutzer in die Lage, bewusste Handlungen als Handlungsvorgänge im Implantat abzuspeichern. Gespeicherte Handlungen können bei vollem Bewusstsein oder in der Schlafphase reaktiviert werden, um ungeliebte Handlungen schneller oder unterbewusst stattfinden zu lassen.

==Neuronale Kommunikation==

Das ReCoBrain-Update in naher Zukunft: ReCordings können nicht nur aufgezeichnet sondern auch über das Internet mit anderen ReCoBrain-Nutzern ausgetauscht werden! Über den Firmeneigenen APP-Store können Routineprozesse anderer ganz einfach ins eigene Repertoir eingespeist werden.

==ReCoBRAIN – Der Injektor==

Der Injektor ist das Produkt, das einzig greifbare, mit dem sich alle Hoffnungen und Ängste der neuen Technologie verbinden. Durch ein Injektionssystem werden Synthetische Neuronen unter physiologischen und operationstechnisch sterilen Bedingungen auf die Großhirnrinde, den Cortex, injiziert. Als Haushaltsprodukt ist der Injektor nicht mehr als technisches Gerät zu identifizieren, zur Zeit existiert jedoch nur ein Prototyp.

==Umsetzung==

Zuerst sollen zwei Videos erstellt werden, ein Werbefilm und einige Episoden zur Handhabung von ReCoBRAIN in den unterschiedlichsten Einsatzbereichen. Noch strittig ist die Verknüpfung des Videomaterials in Level 1 des Projekts.

===Level 1: Video===

====Werbefilm:====

Die Vorzüge des neuen Produkts sollen angepriesen werden, ohne näher auf die eigentliche Technologie einzugehen. Es kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass Konkurrenzprodukte auf dem Markt sind, denen ReCoBRAIN laut Hersteller um einige Vorzüge bezüglich des Preises, der Handhabung und der Sicherheit voraus sein soll. Drei mehr oder weniger banale Anwendungsmöglichkeiten für drei Zielgruppenvertreter (Vater, Mutter, Kind) werden exemplarisch vorexerziert. Auf welche Weise das Produkt selbst im Video platziert wird, hängt im Wesentlichen vom Fortschritt des Projekts in Level 2 ab.

====Episoden: ====

'''Fast Forward:''' (Kann Teil des Werbefilms sein.) Der Nutzer erfährt die Verkürzung einer mit ReCoBRAIN erledigten Arbeit durch einen Schnelldurchlauf der Ereignisse. Als Intro wird die relevante Teilaktion einmal durchgeführt (um später im Schlaf wiederholt werden zu können), danach geht der User zu Bett. Während der nächtlichen Durchführung (Schnelldurchlauf) passiert etwas, das auf Grund des Schnelldurchlaufs durch den Betrachter nicht in seiner Bedeutung erfasst werden kann, aber ebenso auch bedeutungslos sein kann. Beispiel: Nächtliches Abspülen, am Ende sieht man kurz im Bild, wie sich eine Person am Kühlschrank zu schaffen macht.

'''Flashback:''' In einer Alltagssituation kehren Ereignisse in Form von Bild und Filmausschnitten zuerst unterbewusst und dann immer dominanter in die Wirklichkeit zurück. Diese Flashbacks können als zurückkehrende ReCoBrain-Erfahrungen interpretiert werden.

'''A Second Mind:''' ReCoBRAIN schaltet sich bei vollem Bewusstsein ein und versucht entgegen bewusster und natürlicher unterbewusster Handlungsabsichten Bewegungen zu forcieren. Die Bewegungen können im Laufe der Episode durchaus eine Absicht hinter der ungewollten Handlung suggerieren.

'''Callous:''' Diese Episode behandelt die Möglichkeit zur unmenschlichen oder menschenfremden Tat, die durch die Verwendung von ReCoBRIAN gegeben ist und entweder die Präzision einer menschenfeindlichen Tat erhöht oder gar Gewissensfreiheit verspricht. Dabei kann die Handlung durchaus auch die eigene Menschenwürde verletzen. Die Episode spielt auf einen abstoßenden Höhepunkt hin (z.B.: Mord, Prostitution) der dem Betrachter Dank der rechtzeitigen Einschaltung des ReCoBRAINs erspart bleibt.

'''Kommentar:''' Alle Episoden können denselben Aufbau haben und/oder abwechseln auf einem Bildschirm ablaufen.

===Level 2: Installation===

Als Installation wird der Injektor modelliert und dem Videomaterial beigefügt. Skizzen für Version „Prototyp“ (technisch) und „Serie“ (alltäglich) folgen.

===Level 3: Installation – Injektorkabine===

Ein Passbildautomat wird mit Hilfe des Injektors zu einem ReCoBRAIN-Servicepoint umfunktioniert. Außen läuft der Werbefilm, innen kann der Injektor aufgesetzt und in einem Interface die gewünschte Modifikation ausgewählt werden. Während der „Injektion“ wird ein Bild des „Kunden“ gemacht und auf einer ReCoBRAIN-ID ausgedruckt, die den vorgenommenen Eingriff beschreibt. Während des Drucks wird eine der Episoden eingespielt.

===Archiv:Poster===

[[File:ReCoBRAIN Chart.jpg|600px]]

GMU:Synthetic Biology/Product Screening

2010-08-06T17:01:37Z

Laura iGem:

= 2009 Wiki - possible products =

'''[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Aberdeen_Scotland Aberdeen_Scotland]'''

"Pico Plumber", a strand of bacteria that can find leaks and corrosion in pipes, reaching them by chemotaxis (although how this would work in realife is not clear from their wiki, since the bacteria need an attractant. would need to be some kind of chemical that is released from pipes when they break). Upon reaching high density at the leaking site, they start producing a glue enzyme (not really specified, they mention tropoelastin, a protein that makes blood vessels elastic. can't tell from their wiki if that's their "glue"). Can be something you can use on a small scale at home for your water pipes.

'''[http://2009.igem.org/Team:British_Columbia British Columbia]'''

E.coli Traffic Light

A strand of E.coli bacteria that senses chemicals of choices and gives a green, yellow or red fluorescent output. Could show a potentially dangerous rise in concentration for pollutants. Same as Cambridge, but with fluorescent proteins, which is very unhandy for at home use.

'''[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Brown Brown]'''

Allergene

A naturally occuring bacterium in the human nasal flora, Staphylococcus epidermidis, is used as a vehicle for the delivery of an anti-allergic drug that is produced only upon allergic reaction. This would come in the form of a nasal spray, I assume.

'''[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge Cambridge]'''

E. chromi

The E. Chromi strain of bacteria can be used for out- and indoor sensing of chemicals (i.e. pollutants) and gives a colour output in form of visible dye that can be directly analysed without fancy laser equipment. Plus the sensor is concentration sensitive.

'''[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Chiba Chiba]'''

E. coli timer

A timer that is triggered by a chemical and depending on concentration gives an output after a certain time. Could be used together with E. chromi, or for boiling eggs.

'''[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cornell Cornell]'''

again a biosensor in form of a bacteria. It can sense the toxic heavy metal cadmium (very important for agriculture). Output is a fluorescent protein.

-> for questions concerning these projects, please contact Laura 
[[User:Laura iGem|Laura iGem]] 19:01, 6 August 2010 (CEST)

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'''''please, always fill in 
a) Team name linked to the 2009er Team Homepage 
b) product name/short description 
c) add a longer comment or an explanation if necessary

GMU:Synbio

2010-06-09T17:51:03Z

Laura iGem:

====Horror Movie about a Human-Animal Synbio Hybrid====

There is a movie playing in cinemas in germany at the moment about a synthetically created human-animal monster.

It is rather silly and acutally the name "Splice" is scientifically completely incorrect, but if you like to check it out, I'm sure it's worth a laugh (now that you know more about genetics than the average person)

Here's a wiki link [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_%28film%29]

Enjoy!

--[[User:Laura iGem|Laura iGem]] 17:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

====BioArts in Austrian Magazine====

An Austrian magazine for genome research, "Genosphären", is running an issue on BioArts and Synthetic Biology this month [http://www.gen-au.at/artikel.jsp?id=932&base=vermitteln&lang=de]. Since you probably won't get your hands on it, here is a round-up of artists that I could not find on your link-list yet. I am sorry if this is somehow redundant in case I missed blog entries, I tried to search through all of them.

- Jun Takita [http://juntakita.com/eng/home.html] created a model of his brain and planted transgenic moss on it. This moss can glow in the dark due to the Luciferase-Gene. This resembles the complex signals that occur in the brain.

- Gary Schneider, who takes genetic portraits of people (which is admittedly not the most original thing to do) [http://garyschneider.net/Portfolio.cfm?nK=7856]

- Adam Brandejs, who presented his sci-fi product, "Genpets", on a website disguised as a normal webshop and raised some outrage with his anti-allergic perfect pet. [http://www.genpets.com]

- Karsten Panzer, who created a colour-coding for the visiual sensation of genetic information [http://www.perzan.de]

I hope this gives some inspiration!

--[[User:Laura iGem|Laura iGem]] 17:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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====Zeit Artikel====
Synthetische Biologie -Leben 2.0 
Was passiert, wenn es der Bio-Industrie gelingt, den menschlichen Körper neu zu programmieren
* http://www.zeit.de/2010/23/Schoepfungsphantasien
--[[User:Max|max]] 18:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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====The Procreative Dinner====
An ephemeral work between art, science and gastronomy. Happening by Prune. Nice way of bringing people in touch with the topic...and another example of a collabortation of art and science.
* http://www.prune-art.com/blog/en/index.php?menu_id=1

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 14:20, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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====Six part Series "Synthetische Biologie" on D-Radio====
[http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/1077533/ Schwerpunkt Synthetische Biologie] 

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 09:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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====More Photos====

I have uploaded some photos which I took during the retreat. Enjoy [[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/Retreat|it]].! 

--[[User:Sharklu|Sharklu]] 00:36, 2 June 2010 (UTC)Lu Jiayuan
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====Back from the retreat====

The firs images of our lab experiences in Hedeilberg and our fruitful retreat to Asselheim can be found [[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/Retreat|here]]. Please feel free to add more pictures!
--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 16:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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====Richard Jones' comment on Craig Venters successful insertion of a synthetic genome into a bacteria====

"One might almost suspect that there is a symbiosis going on here, between those scientists anxious to maximise the significance of their work, and bioethicists in search of an issue to raise their own profile. After all, if a piece of science is worth worrying about, it must be important. It’s not that I don’t think that these developments have potentially important societal and ethical implications – but it seems to me that these would be better considered from a standpoint that was a little more critical." Richard Jones on his [http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/ Blog].

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 16:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

====First human 'infected with computer virus'====
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10158517.stm Article] on BBC News
 --[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 15:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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====A New Plant====
Hello! Everyone!

I have built my project page... 
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/a new plant| a new plant]] 
Welcome to do something! --[[User:Sharklu|Sharklu]] 16:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC) 
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====To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life – the most pretentious bacterium ever====

''I'd create an animal that excretes meat, just to give vegetarians pause for thought. Ethically, what's the problem with eating a sausage, if it's been harmlessly pooed out by an animal? To sweeten the pill yet further, what if you put pleasure receptors in the animal's colon, so it actively enjoys the sausage-creation process – enjoys it to such a degree that it chases you down the street, yelping in orgasmic delight and producing a string of pan-ready chipolatas? If you think that's disgusting, I'd just like to point out that it's far less revolting than killing a pig with a bolt gun then mashing it up into sausagemeat.'' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/24/charlie-brooker-artificial-life-here Charlie Brooker: So, artificial life is here, courtesy of Craig Venter. Time to remix humankind…]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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====Some more links on synthetic life====
[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18942-immaculate-creation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html Newscienist: Immaculate creation: birth of the first synthetic cell]

[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?ref=science NYTimes: Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 09:17, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
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===='''Kokoromo : My project is online====

So I also put up my project...
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/ko_ko_ro_mo| ko_ko_ro_mo]]

Please don't be shy and have a look.

I really look forward to discuss it with you all.

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 23:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Response to 'My Flower'====

First response is written ^^

Have fun!

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 15:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

====Update on my page====
Hello everybody. 
There is new content on my project page. 
It's about my ideas of improving my project. 
The link is below: 
*[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]

Please visit and leave comment! 
Thanks!

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 12:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Pass the impossimpleble :)====
Oh my! Are they already this far in development?

I found a pretty amazing TV documentation-series,
(if you can call like that...because its more a idealistic utopia),
of the berlin TVchannel Phoenix.
It is about the possibilities which may occur while living in future with new technologies. It think it would be very interessting for some of you.

To my shame it is only in german at the moment,
but under the link you can find some informations to the technolgies and the scientists.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVS_HvgFfw&feature=PlayList&p=C62483CC011D4E91&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=18] Here comes part 1 of 3

First Episode - Living in the future - Humans

--> houses and also clothes will be connected to the internet to control our
health und living status every single moment
electronic fibre by Dr. Prof. Sundaresan Jayaraman
(Georgie Institute of Technology)
--> cars will fly in the air with a satelite electronical guide system
to provied us from traffic jams and accidents
flying car by Dr. Paul Moller (Moller International)
--> stemcells can be used to create new organs
tissue engineering by Dr. Stefan Jockenhövel
(Helmholz-Institute for biomedical technique)
--> 3D genomic printer to create organs layer by layer
by Dr. Prof. Thomas Boland (Clemson University)
--> food wont make us fat anymore because of genetic engineered proteins
by Dr. Prof. Med. Rob Hammer (Wageningen Centre of Food Science)
--> cure paraplegia or other neural-muscular deseases
with electronic sensor body-implants you can control with your thoughts
sensors by Prof. Dr. John Donoghue (Brown University)
--> computer surgery sytems controlled by doctors for precise working
and without viral infections
by Dr. Oliver Burgert (innovation-centre for computer-assisted surgery)

But all that glitters is not gold? Or?

Here also a small outlook what may happend with our health system in future.
Also german *yeah I know I know thats stupid*.

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3961048]
It is called: 'Leichen im Keller' or like the englisch proverb 'scelletons in the (closet) cellar'

I think it is rather nice^^

I look foward to have some smalltalk about the chances and risks of synbio with you all.

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 18:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Its done====
How does it feel to have created artificial life, Dr Venter?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/dr-craig-venter-so-doctor-how-does-it-feel-to-have-created-artificial-life-1978873.html

http://www.culturalfarming.com/Resources/civic_media/PostHuman.mov

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 07:53, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form article]@Guardian.co.uk. Watch the video.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:03, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Links to my project====
Hello everbody!
I'm Yu Xiaorui
I add a link to my Project.
You can Find it in the main page of Synthetic Biology Wiki
Or Click here:
* '''[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]''' I put my review about the presentation I made today on. 

'''Please go and leave comment or suggestion!
That's very important to me!'''
 BTW, thank the comment left by Dominic,very helpful! 

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 17:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Comment====

Now, the scientific standpoint concerning your ideas, Yu.

1st idea) Analyzing the heartbeat, blood pressure and temperature is a pretty good starting point. Those are, by the way, non-invasive standard techniques used in every hospital today (as you know). So the idea to measure those is not far fetched.
Those indicators can indeed tell you, if there is something really wrong with your cat. But they are insufficient for the diagnosis of a certain disease or even a certain mood. If the cat is excitet blood pressure, heartbeat and temperature will go up, probably. The same could happen if the cat gets sick.

So what came to my mind was whether you should think about adding some more "input" parameters. I listed some of those in the last comment I made below (hormones, gene expression detecteble from RNA in human blood).

I like the idea about a screen, that will show the result of the analyses and system that would then treat the cat with a kind of special drug. You should probably think about the way, this treatment could happen. Is there i.e. a machine inside the cat that would apply those drugs? Are there cells that would produce the drugs? If so, how would they get the message, that they sould produce a drug? (the latter two thinks are typical synthetic biology problems and thus very interesting, indeed).

2nd idea) I like this idea very much! Again, you should thinks about the parameters you want to use in order to detect the mood of a person. As I said, hormones could be a very good indicator. Bernd presented a very nice animation about facial pattern recognition to us in Heidelberg once. If you didn't see it before, you should probably have a look at it [http://www.vimeo.com/3381151 here] (I hope that is the right one...).

What I really love about this idea is the plant part. Plants making any kind of scent in order to smoothen your mood is really cool and would for sure need synthetic biology for engineering those plants. So the direction is really good in my opinion.

The interface between the human feelings and the plant is of course important in your project. Think about possible ways, that could be done. What I can tell you already is, that people are working hard in order to conntect cells (i.e. neurons, that means nerve cells) with computers. It has been shown in many studies that you can use elecrtricity in order to influence cells. Another good input is light, for example. Recent studies show, that light can be used in order switch on or off different (previously engineered) systems in a cell.
So what comes to my mind is: What about putting the plants under a certain light source. In case the person is agressive, red light is turned on and the plant will start to produce a sweet smell or something.
In case a person is tired, the light will turn green and the plant produces a smell that will make the person wake up and so on.
So light whould be used to switch between the ordors produced.
In the synthetic biology reader I send to sebastian (I don't know whether you got that one) therer is a nice article where light was used in order to controll the movement of a simple worm-like organism.
Just as a rough suggestion.

The light sourece could be controlled by a computer that estimates the mood of the person from the different parameters.
So controlling behaviour of organisms using light should be possible.

Good luck for your work! I really liked those ideas pretty much!!

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:42, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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====General Information and some specific Information about future vision of Personalized Medicine====

Some general hopefully interesting info for some of you. The personalized medicine idea (bacteria in gut) and some other ideas pointet me to a documentation I once saw in the ZDF about a future vision of our life and society.
This documentary series called "2057- Unser Leben in der Zukunft" ran some time ago. Although one could controversely discuss the scientific content in those documentations, I find they are interesting and they might be inspiring. The first episode is about future healthcare and personalized medicine. Although some of the ideas sound strange at first hand, people are already working on many of those (i.e. the organ inject printer) [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070221093208.htm]
You can find the ZDF documentary series here: [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2057+unser+leben+in+der+zukunft&aq=f Youtube: 2057- Unser Leben in der Zukunft]

b) The movie GATTACA might also be interesting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca Wikipedia: GATTACA]

Furthermore, I already told you about sequencing from simple blood samples.
Sequencing is the technology used to read the genetic code (AGCTTACCTTACC...). Therefor physical DNA (or RNA, I come to that later) is needed. DNA can simply be taken out from cells, i.e. cells of your skin or even blood plasm and serum. You can find some Information about DNA Sequencing on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequencing Wikipedia].

So why is that interesting?

1) Well, i.e. for diagnosis of genetic diseases. Recent studies showed, that DNA sequencing from the blood of pregnant women can be used to determine whether the fetus (baby) has the predisposition for a certain genetic disease. Keep in mind, that the DNA is sort of the genetic building plan of evey cell. So you can get information about this building plan and whether it has some errors here and there. Find some information about DNA Sequencing from blood [http://www.pnas.org/content/105/42/16266.full here].

2) Sequencing not the DNA, but the RNA is also very interesting, as the amount of RNA present in a cell gives you information about the gene expression (= the genes turned on and those turned off at a certain timepoint). RNA is the molecule that is used to translate the messages coded on the DNA in a from, that the inner cell machinary can read this massage and make the proteins. Proteins are the effector molecules and can be seen as the little machines, controlling the behaviour of a cell (i.e. energy production, movement, cell division- nearly everything). Strongly simplified, one can say, that one gene codes for a certain RNA and that RNA codes for a certain protein.

DNA --> RNA --> Protein

The more RNAs of the same type are present in a cell, the more proteins of the same type are made. So, if I do RNA sequencing, I get the information about the genes that are turned on or off, and I can even tell in which ratio that happenes. Biologists are talking about gene overexpression (= genes turned on at a higher level than normal) and underexpression (= genes turned on at a lower level than normal).
Unnormal gene expression is a typical indicator for a disregulation in a cell and can therefor be indicator for a disease. In many diseases the gene expression (and therefor the gene regulation) is unnormal. But not only diseases lead to different gene expression: When you eat and drink, when you jump into cold water and in other situations gene expression might be altered.

Coming back to the point: Sequencing RNA from human blood is possible since some years. In the future, as automated sequencing gets better and cheaper, that could give us the oppotunity to have a sort of online-look onto our gene expression. We would simply take blood samples and put them into a full-automatic (pocket?) sequencer.

Today, RNA analysis from blood samples is used i.e. for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test HIV-diagnosis] and is also taken into account for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test cancer diagnosis]. In general, if the RNA sequencing from blood will get better and better, we will probably be able to look at our gene expression profile online!

Despite those technologies, another important marker in the blood, especially for the detection of the mood and feelings of the persons are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormones hormones]. Hormones have been shown to have a strong influence on many body functions, including blood pressure and heartbeat. Furthermore they have a strong influence on the way we feel and act. Lovers have a certain hormone-cocktail in their blood, people being excited or agressive have a high adrenaline level in their blood. In animal studies it was shown, that by injecting a certain hormone into animals normally not living in groups, they would be nice and friendly living with the group of their kind afterwards (I will look up which animal that was and add that later).

I hope their has been at least some interesting information in this much too long paragraph :)

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:16, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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====My ideas about this project====
I have some more ideas about this project.
Please make comment and let me know if they are good！
If you know some scientific Theories which can support my idea,Please tell me!
I really appreciate for that!

First one I call it Cat reader.
It has two parts.
Part I you can put it in your car's body.
It will analyze the datas of your cat,heart beat, blood pressure锛?temperature ect.
By these, it can tell the mood of your cat and its health situation.

The result will be showed in part II, which is a pet collar with a screen.
Through this the owner can see how is the cat doing.
Hungry, thirsty, sick,angry or happy.Then he can take care of it better.

Another function of the part I is it can give some medicine to the cat.
For example, if the cat hurt itself or it is ill, and part I detects that.
Besides show on the screen,it will also give some medicine as first add.

Another idea is a indoor system,which is similar to the first one.
But it is make up with a flower and an analyze machine.
The analyze machine is like the Part I in Cat reader, But it is installed in human body.
It can tell your mood,then send signal to a receiver which is connected to the plant.
Then the flower will give off different scent to sooth your mood.
Also you can set the flower manually according to your need.
For example you'd like to keep awake or sleep well.

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 16:45, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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====DIYbio and Personalized Medicine====

Andrew Hessel, one of the cofounders of the company [http://pinkarmy.org/ Pink Army Cooperative], an open source project for the development of new, personalized breast cancer treatments . There is a nice video on youtube, where Andrew Hessel talks about the future of synthetic biology and also about the Pink Army: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ0kkgPxJk Andrew Hessel on Youtube].

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:07, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Bacteria for personalized Medicine and other interesting iGEM ideas====

Some iGEM-Teams from 2008 and 2009 worked on using bacteria for personalized medicine. The idea to put them into the human gut and let them react to either internal or external stimuli has led to some interesting wet-lab projects.

Probably most famous in the iGEM-context is the work from Taipei 2008 (have also a look on wiki design an figures): [http://2008.igem.org/Team:NYMU-Taipei Taipei Wiki 2008]

Caltech 2008 took a similar approach: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Caltech Caltech Wiki 2008]

Also interesting: the bacto-joghurt idea by MIT 2008: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:MIT MIT Wiki 2008]

You sould also have a brief look on those projects here, especially on the kind of idea they focus on. All of them are really special in their way:

Edinburgh 2009 on the detection of land mines: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh Edinburgh Wiki 2009]

Calgary 2009 and their human practices project on a Second Life Synhetic Biology world: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Calgary# Calgary Wiki 2009]

Tokyo Tech 2009 on terraforming Mars (very cool idea): [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech Wiki 2009]

Virginia 2009 on water cleaning: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Virginia Virgina Wiki 2009]

Tokyo Tech 2008 on an E. coli based touch display: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech Wiki 2008]

Furthermore, you should have a look at some team presentations. Besides the finalists presentations from 2008 and 2009 that are interesting anyways, the following ones have been really cool and fun:
Tokyo Tech 2009, Calgary 2009

Have fun! I'm looking forward to see you soon in Heidelberg! More information is about to come in this blog, soon.

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 12:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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====“Synthetic Biology” Sparks Nano-Terror Scenario====
[http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/synthetic_biology_sparks_nano-terror_scenario/ Article] about misuses, expected and unexpected consequences of Syn Bio.
Includes some links to other resources about safety issues.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Scienceblogs on Synbio====
Interesting read about Synbio. There is an [http://scienceblogs.com/oscillator/2010/05/synthetic_biology_art.php article] featuring [http://www.tuurvanbalen.com/ Tuur van Balen's] work

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 14:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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====New Scientist CultureLab====
[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-science-poll.php Art meets science: What do you think of it all?]

''Over the next few days we'll be publishing a series of articles looking at art-science collaborations, and to kick things off we've set up a quick survey.'' (New Scientist)

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-when-worlds-collaborate.php Overview]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-curator.php Art meets science: A curator who wants to open windows]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-aesthetics-politics-and-metaphysics.php Art meets science: Aesthetics, politics and metaphysics]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-physicist.php Art meets science: Physicist in a cultural landscape]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-lingua-digica.php Art meets science: Speaking a lingua digica]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-state-of-the-art.php Art meets science: Catch up with the state of the art]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:55, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Cultural Probes====
If you are interested in Design as a research tool, you should
read this.
[http://cleo.ics.uci.edu/teaching/Winter10/231/readings/3-GaverDunnePacenti-CulturalProbes.pdf Cultural Probes]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 16:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Neighborhood Science====
The Medialab Prado in Madrid is calling for collaborators for their Interactivos?'10, the topic is 'Neighborhood Science'.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos10_ciencia_de_barrio_convocatoria_de_colaboradores

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 13:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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====NextNature.net====
Please have a look at http://www.nextnature.net/. There are a couple
Synbio related articles like [http://www.nextnature.net/2010/05/fludoc-glowing-bacteria-tell-if-you-have-flue/ FluDOC – Glowing Bacteria show if you have Influenza]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:42, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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====FYI: Literaturliste Grafik und Gestaltung====
http://web.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Die_neue_U-Bahn#Literatur

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 13:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Michiko Nitta: Extreme Green Guerrillias====
I think we have mentioned the project already, but give it a look.
It is illustrating the implications of extreme sustainable lifestyle, utilising genetic modifications and more.

http://www.myportfolio.me.uk/EGGs.htm

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 10:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Bio-Fiction Film Festival====
There is a synbio film festival in Vienna.
The deadline ( 15. July) is perfect because it's one week after our final presentation.
Should be interesting for some of you.

Have a look.

[http://www.bio-fiction.com/call_for_entries.html bio-fiction.com]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:01, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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====PERFECT BODY (living sex machine)====
I am really sorry that I couldnt be there on thursday for the presentation! So now my work in progress in a short movie - with:

.introduction

.perfect body kit

.magazine

.crossword

.drugstore-tv-spot

<videoflash type="vimeo">11366691|400|300</videoflash>

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 22:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Design will save the world====

Inhabitat.com is an online plattform for ecological und biological projects in architecture, design, technology and art.
Inventions from all over the world are presented here!

It is not directly something about synthetic biology,
but you can still find a lot of nice and inspiring stuff for your work.

http://inhabitat.com

--[[User:Vanessa|Wawa]] 15:43, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
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====(re)Performing the Posthuman====
http://reperformingtheposthuman.yolasite.com/

21/22 may 2010
The programme will include keynotes by Rosemary Klich, Jennifer Parker-
Starbuck and Stelarc, paper presentations, performances, video
showings, a small exhibition space and a gallery in Second Life.

About: "...models of subjectivity that call into question the humanist concept of the body as a biological entity, and as the "container" of the human subject"... "drawing attention to inconsistencies between the theory's wider cultural implications and socio-political realities, others insisting on the possibility of a biological definition of humanness"... "It is therefore now an apposite moment to revisit the idea of the posthuman, and posthumanist approaches to performance art and theatre. The aim of (re)Performing the Posthuman is to create an opportunity to do precisely this and to discuss in what form (if any) non-humanist concepts of the body and subjectivity may still be useful as a conceptual and analytical framework in performance arts."

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 13:21, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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====23andme special offer====

[[File:23andme.png|thumb|left|220px|© 23andMe, Inc. 2009. All rights reserved; distributed pursuant to a Limited License from [http://www.23andme.com/about/tos/ 23andMe]]]
 

Get your genetic health and ancestry checked with
[https://www.23andme.com/store/ 23anme]. Now for only 99$. Or maybe not.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 20:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Mmh, not anymore. Price is back to 499$.

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 08:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Synbio on the go====
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t4fh reportage Synbio (english)]

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3449990 Introduction Synbio (German)]

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3388858 Dsicussion Synbio (German)]

--[[User:JanD|JanD]] 15:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Craig Venter on DNA and the sea====

<videoflash type=youtube>E5X6Qy772YU|437|236</videoflash>

''Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about 
the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the ocean’s 
biodiversity.''

Craig venter surveys the genetic biodiversity. In history surveying often meant taking possession.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 17:35, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Sk-Interfaces_Ausstellung====
http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/html_en/expositions/expoencours_skinterfaces.htm

Die Ausstellung ist leider schon vorbei, dabei waren aber die Größen der Branche: Art Orienté objet, Maurice Benayoun, Zane Berzina, Critical Art Ensemble, Wim Delvoye, Olivier Goulet, Eduardo Kac, Antal Lakner, Yann Marussich, Kira O’Reilly, Zbigniew Oksiuta, ORLAN, Philippe Rahm, Julia Reodica, Stelarc, Jun Takita, The Office of Experiments, The Tissue Culture and Art Project, Sissel Tolaas, Paul Vanouse.

Es gibt ein Minivideo auf der Seite..
--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 22:16, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

es gibt auch ein schönes, interaktives (was den umschlag betrifft) buch dazu!
*SK-Interfaces ISBN 1846311497
<strike>vielleicht was für die bibliothek?</strike> (ist in der Unibibliothek vorhanden --[[User:Max|max]] 20:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC))

--[[User:Ck schroeder|Ck schroeder]] 19:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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====Heterogeneous Home====
http://www.benhooker.com/heterogeneoushome/
 get inspired
 by [[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 20:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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====Try this at home: Extracting Human DNA====
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6950604815683841321&hl=en%23#docid=-4012088783925636893 Instructional video]
 

by [[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 18:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Research/Link: Biopunk Manifesto====
The Biopunk Manifesto by Annalee Newitz [http://www.ekac.org/biopunk.html]

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====Kac goes Hopfengärtner====
Apparently bioart allstar E.Kac features in his recent work methods employed by B.Hopfengärtner a couple of years ago ;)
Eduardo Kac, Lagoglyphs: Lagoogleglyph I (2009)
Google Earth work composed of Lagoglyph installed on the roof of Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, approx. 26 x 56 ft; and custom-ordered WorldView2 satellite photograph. 
Kac: http://www.ekac.org/oi_kac.show_overview.html 
Hopfengärtner: http://hello.w0r1d.net/

Sidenote (Learning from the professionals): Always have female spectators in photographic representation of your artwork.

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==== 22.01.10 Preparation Workshop Heidelberg====

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====iGEM 2009 Team Wash U: Synthetically Regulated Antenna Energy Production in Bioreactors====
This group tries to grow a Alphaproteobacteria wich can be used for Energy Production with less energy wasted

*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Wash_U/Project

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====iGEM 2009 Team Cambridge: E.chromi feat. Daisy Ginsberg + John King====

*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Project/Amplification
*http://ung.igem.org/Results?year=2009

*http://www.echromi.com/
*http://www.daisyginsberg.com/index.html

<videoflash type="vimeo">7466044|400|300</videoflash>

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====DIYbio====
Basierend auf das ArtScienceBangalore/Project des iGEM Wettbewerbs
wurde eine kleine Forschung über "do-it-your-self" möglichkeiten
im eigenen Atelier ein kleines Labor einzurichten mit dem man Biologie "hacken"
kann.
Bei der suche nach Informationen bin ich auf folgende Internetseiten gestoßen
die sich damit befassen:

Eine Seite ist die Amateur-Bio-Hacker Seite DIYbio [http://diybio.org/about/]

In der Stanford School of Medicine - Undersanding Genetics findet man Videos
zu "Do-It-Yourself Strawberry DNA" [http://www.thetech.org/genetics/medicine.php]

Auf der nächsten Seite findet man interessante Artikel mit denen sich das ArtScienceBangalore Project befasst hat zu den Themen:

Art and Politics,Art,Science,Ethics,Design & Technology,Synthetic Biology,General Design Links usw. [http://hackteria.org/wiki/index.php/ArtScience_IGEM_team]

Wenn Salmonellen Leuchten!!
Die OSAKA Gruppe präsentiert ihre Arbeiten.[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Osaka/WORKS]

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====Synthetic Biology Software Suite (SynBioSS)====

*http://synbioss.sourceforge.net/
The Synthetic Biology Software Suite (SynBioSS) is a software suite for the generation, storing, retrieval and quantitative simulation of synthetic biological networks.
The SynBioSS DS is a set of multiscale algorithms for modeling and simulating reaction networks, such as gene regulatory networks.

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====Spectacles - A visual editing framework ====
from the 2009 iGEM UC Berkeley Software Team Wiki
*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Berkeley_Software/Spectacles
for the design of composite biological devices and the assignment of physical samples to functional concepts.

GMU:Synbio

2010-06-06T17:36:44Z

Laura iGem:

====BioArts in Austrian Magazine====

An Austrian magazine for genome research, "Genosphären", is running an issue on BioArts and Synthetic Biology this month [http://www.gen-au.at/artikel.jsp?id=932&base=vermitteln&lang=de]. Since you probably won't get your hands on it, here is a round-up of artists that I could not find on your link-list yet. I am sorry if this is somehow redundant in case I missed blog entries, I tried to search through all of them.

- Jun Takita [http://juntakita.com/eng/home.html] created a model of his brain and planted transgenic moss on it. This moss can glow in the dark due to the Luciferase-Gene. This resembles the complex signals that occur in the brain.

- Gary Schneider, who takes genetic portraits of people (which is admittedly not the most original thing to do) [http://garyschneider.net/Portfolio.cfm?nK=7856]

- Adam Brandejs, who presented his sci-fi product, "Genpets", on a website disguised as a normal webshop and raised some outrage with his anti-allergic perfect pet. [http://www.genpets.com]

- Karsten Panzer, who created a colour-coding for the visiual sensation of genetic information [http://www.perzan.de]

I hope this gives some inspiration!

--[[User:Laura iGem|Laura iGem]] 17:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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====Zeit Artikel====
Synthetische Biologie -Leben 2.0 
Was passiert, wenn es der Bio-Industrie gelingt, den menschlichen Körper neu zu programmieren
* http://www.zeit.de/2010/23/Schoepfungsphantasien
--[[User:Max|max]] 18:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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====The Procreative Dinner====
An ephemeral work between art, science and gastronomy. Happening by Prune. Nice way of bringing people in touch with the topic...and another example of a collabortation of art and science.
* http://www.prune-art.com/blog/en/index.php?menu_id=1

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 14:20, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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====Six part Series "Synthetische Biologie" on D-Radio====
[http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/1077533/ Schwerpunkt Synthetische Biologie] 

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 09:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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====More Photos====

I have uploaded some photos which I took during the retreat. Enjoy [[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/Retreat|it]].! 

--[[User:Sharklu|Sharklu]] 00:36, 2 June 2010 (UTC)Lu Jiayuan
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====Back from the retreat====

The firs images of our lab experiences in Hedeilberg and our fruitful retreat to Asselheim can be found [[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/Retreat|here]]. Please feel free to add more pictures!
--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 16:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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====Richard Jones' comment on Craig Venters successful insertion of a synthetic genome into a bacteria====

"One might almost suspect that there is a symbiosis going on here, between those scientists anxious to maximise the significance of their work, and bioethicists in search of an issue to raise their own profile. After all, if a piece of science is worth worrying about, it must be important. It’s not that I don’t think that these developments have potentially important societal and ethical implications – but it seems to me that these would be better considered from a standpoint that was a little more critical." Richard Jones on his [http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/ Blog].

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 16:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

====First human 'infected with computer virus'====
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10158517.stm Article] on BBC News
 --[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 15:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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====A New Plant====
Hello! Everyone!

I have built my project page... 
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/a new plant| a new plant]] 
Welcome to do something! --[[User:Sharklu|Sharklu]] 16:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC) 
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====To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life – the most pretentious bacterium ever====

''I'd create an animal that excretes meat, just to give vegetarians pause for thought. Ethically, what's the problem with eating a sausage, if it's been harmlessly pooed out by an animal? To sweeten the pill yet further, what if you put pleasure receptors in the animal's colon, so it actively enjoys the sausage-creation process – enjoys it to such a degree that it chases you down the street, yelping in orgasmic delight and producing a string of pan-ready chipolatas? If you think that's disgusting, I'd just like to point out that it's far less revolting than killing a pig with a bolt gun then mashing it up into sausagemeat.'' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/24/charlie-brooker-artificial-life-here Charlie Brooker: So, artificial life is here, courtesy of Craig Venter. Time to remix humankind…]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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====Some more links on synthetic life====
[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18942-immaculate-creation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html Newscienist: Immaculate creation: birth of the first synthetic cell]

[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?ref=science NYTimes: Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 09:17, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
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===='''Kokoromo : My project is online====

So I also put up my project...
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/ko_ko_ro_mo| ko_ko_ro_mo]]

Please don't be shy and have a look.

I really look forward to discuss it with you all.

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 23:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Response to 'My Flower'====

First response is written ^^

Have fun!

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 15:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

====Update on my page====
Hello everybody. 
There is new content on my project page. 
It's about my ideas of improving my project. 
The link is below: 
*[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]

Please visit and leave comment! 
Thanks!

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 12:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Pass the impossimpleble :)====
Oh my! Are they already this far in development?

I found a pretty amazing TV documentation-series,
(if you can call like that...because its more a idealistic utopia),
of the berlin TVchannel Phoenix.
It is about the possibilities which may occur while living in future with new technologies. It think it would be very interessting for some of you.

To my shame it is only in german at the moment,
but under the link you can find some informations to the technolgies and the scientists.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVS_HvgFfw&feature=PlayList&p=C62483CC011D4E91&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=18] Here comes part 1 of 3

First Episode - Living in the future - Humans

--> houses and also clothes will be connected to the internet to control our
health und living status every single moment
electronic fibre by Dr. Prof. Sundaresan Jayaraman
(Georgie Institute of Technology)
--> cars will fly in the air with a satelite electronical guide system
to provied us from traffic jams and accidents
flying car by Dr. Paul Moller (Moller International)
--> stemcells can be used to create new organs
tissue engineering by Dr. Stefan Jockenhövel
(Helmholz-Institute for biomedical technique)
--> 3D genomic printer to create organs layer by layer
by Dr. Prof. Thomas Boland (Clemson University)
--> food wont make us fat anymore because of genetic engineered proteins
by Dr. Prof. Med. Rob Hammer (Wageningen Centre of Food Science)
--> cure paraplegia or other neural-muscular deseases
with electronic sensor body-implants you can control with your thoughts
sensors by Prof. Dr. John Donoghue (Brown University)
--> computer surgery sytems controlled by doctors for precise working
and without viral infections
by Dr. Oliver Burgert (innovation-centre for computer-assisted surgery)

But all that glitters is not gold? Or?

Here also a small outlook what may happend with our health system in future.
Also german *yeah I know I know thats stupid*.

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3961048]
It is called: 'Leichen im Keller' or like the englisch proverb 'scelletons in the (closet) cellar'

I think it is rather nice^^

I look foward to have some smalltalk about the chances and risks of synbio with you all.

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 18:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Its done====
How does it feel to have created artificial life, Dr Venter?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/dr-craig-venter-so-doctor-how-does-it-feel-to-have-created-artificial-life-1978873.html

http://www.culturalfarming.com/Resources/civic_media/PostHuman.mov

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 07:53, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form article]@Guardian.co.uk. Watch the video.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:03, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Links to my project====
Hello everbody!
I'm Yu Xiaorui
I add a link to my Project.
You can Find it in the main page of Synthetic Biology Wiki
Or Click here:
* '''[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]''' I put my review about the presentation I made today on. 

'''Please go and leave comment or suggestion!
That's very important to me!'''
 BTW, thank the comment left by Dominic,very helpful! 

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 17:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Comment====

Now, the scientific standpoint concerning your ideas, Yu.

1st idea) Analyzing the heartbeat, blood pressure and temperature is a pretty good starting point. Those are, by the way, non-invasive standard techniques used in every hospital today (as you know). So the idea to measure those is not far fetched.
Those indicators can indeed tell you, if there is something really wrong with your cat. But they are insufficient for the diagnosis of a certain disease or even a certain mood. If the cat is excitet blood pressure, heartbeat and temperature will go up, probably. The same could happen if the cat gets sick.

So what came to my mind was whether you should think about adding some more "input" parameters. I listed some of those in the last comment I made below (hormones, gene expression detecteble from RNA in human blood).

I like the idea about a screen, that will show the result of the analyses and system that would then treat the cat with a kind of special drug. You should probably think about the way, this treatment could happen. Is there i.e. a machine inside the cat that would apply those drugs? Are there cells that would produce the drugs? If so, how would they get the message, that they sould produce a drug? (the latter two thinks are typical synthetic biology problems and thus very interesting, indeed).

2nd idea) I like this idea very much! Again, you should thinks about the parameters you want to use in order to detect the mood of a person. As I said, hormones could be a very good indicator. Bernd presented a very nice animation about facial pattern recognition to us in Heidelberg once. If you didn't see it before, you should probably have a look at it [http://www.vimeo.com/3381151 here] (I hope that is the right one...).

What I really love about this idea is the plant part. Plants making any kind of scent in order to smoothen your mood is really cool and would for sure need synthetic biology for engineering those plants. So the direction is really good in my opinion.

The interface between the human feelings and the plant is of course important in your project. Think about possible ways, that could be done. What I can tell you already is, that people are working hard in order to conntect cells (i.e. neurons, that means nerve cells) with computers. It has been shown in many studies that you can use elecrtricity in order to influence cells. Another good input is light, for example. Recent studies show, that light can be used in order switch on or off different (previously engineered) systems in a cell.
So what comes to my mind is: What about putting the plants under a certain light source. In case the person is agressive, red light is turned on and the plant will start to produce a sweet smell or something.
In case a person is tired, the light will turn green and the plant produces a smell that will make the person wake up and so on.
So light whould be used to switch between the ordors produced.
In the synthetic biology reader I send to sebastian (I don't know whether you got that one) therer is a nice article where light was used in order to controll the movement of a simple worm-like organism.
Just as a rough suggestion.

The light sourece could be controlled by a computer that estimates the mood of the person from the different parameters.
So controlling behaviour of organisms using light should be possible.

Good luck for your work! I really liked those ideas pretty much!!

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:42, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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====General Information and some specific Information about future vision of Personalized Medicine====

Some general hopefully interesting info for some of you. The personalized medicine idea (bacteria in gut) and some other ideas pointet me to a documentation I once saw in the ZDF about a future vision of our life and society.
This documentary series called "2057- Unser Leben in der Zukunft" ran some time ago. Although one could controversely discuss the scientific content in those documentations, I find they are interesting and they might be inspiring. The first episode is about future healthcare and personalized medicine. Although some of the ideas sound strange at first hand, people are already working on many of those (i.e. the organ inject printer) [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070221093208.htm]
You can find the ZDF documentary series here: [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2057+unser+leben+in+der+zukunft&aq=f Youtube: 2057- Unser Leben in der Zukunft]

b) The movie GATTACA might also be interesting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca Wikipedia: GATTACA]

Furthermore, I already told you about sequencing from simple blood samples.
Sequencing is the technology used to read the genetic code (AGCTTACCTTACC...). Therefor physical DNA (or RNA, I come to that later) is needed. DNA can simply be taken out from cells, i.e. cells of your skin or even blood plasm and serum. You can find some Information about DNA Sequencing on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequencing Wikipedia].

So why is that interesting?

1) Well, i.e. for diagnosis of genetic diseases. Recent studies showed, that DNA sequencing from the blood of pregnant women can be used to determine whether the fetus (baby) has the predisposition for a certain genetic disease. Keep in mind, that the DNA is sort of the genetic building plan of evey cell. So you can get information about this building plan and whether it has some errors here and there. Find some information about DNA Sequencing from blood [http://www.pnas.org/content/105/42/16266.full here].

2) Sequencing not the DNA, but the RNA is also very interesting, as the amount of RNA present in a cell gives you information about the gene expression (= the genes turned on and those turned off at a certain timepoint). RNA is the molecule that is used to translate the messages coded on the DNA in a from, that the inner cell machinary can read this massage and make the proteins. Proteins are the effector molecules and can be seen as the little machines, controlling the behaviour of a cell (i.e. energy production, movement, cell division- nearly everything). Strongly simplified, one can say, that one gene codes for a certain RNA and that RNA codes for a certain protein.

DNA --> RNA --> Protein

The more RNAs of the same type are present in a cell, the more proteins of the same type are made. So, if I do RNA sequencing, I get the information about the genes that are turned on or off, and I can even tell in which ratio that happenes. Biologists are talking about gene overexpression (= genes turned on at a higher level than normal) and underexpression (= genes turned on at a lower level than normal).
Unnormal gene expression is a typical indicator for a disregulation in a cell and can therefor be indicator for a disease. In many diseases the gene expression (and therefor the gene regulation) is unnormal. But not only diseases lead to different gene expression: When you eat and drink, when you jump into cold water and in other situations gene expression might be altered.

Coming back to the point: Sequencing RNA from human blood is possible since some years. In the future, as automated sequencing gets better and cheaper, that could give us the oppotunity to have a sort of online-look onto our gene expression. We would simply take blood samples and put them into a full-automatic (pocket?) sequencer.

Today, RNA analysis from blood samples is used i.e. for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test HIV-diagnosis] and is also taken into account for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test cancer diagnosis]. In general, if the RNA sequencing from blood will get better and better, we will probably be able to look at our gene expression profile online!

Despite those technologies, another important marker in the blood, especially for the detection of the mood and feelings of the persons are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormones hormones]. Hormones have been shown to have a strong influence on many body functions, including blood pressure and heartbeat. Furthermore they have a strong influence on the way we feel and act. Lovers have a certain hormone-cocktail in their blood, people being excited or agressive have a high adrenaline level in their blood. In animal studies it was shown, that by injecting a certain hormone into animals normally not living in groups, they would be nice and friendly living with the group of their kind afterwards (I will look up which animal that was and add that later).

I hope their has been at least some interesting information in this much too long paragraph :)

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:16, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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====My ideas about this project====
I have some more ideas about this project.
Please make comment and let me know if they are good！
If you know some scientific Theories which can support my idea,Please tell me!
I really appreciate for that!

First one I call it Cat reader.
It has two parts.
Part I you can put it in your car's body.
It will analyze the datas of your cat,heart beat, blood pressure锛?temperature ect.
By these, it can tell the mood of your cat and its health situation.

The result will be showed in part II, which is a pet collar with a screen.
Through this the owner can see how is the cat doing.
Hungry, thirsty, sick,angry or happy.Then he can take care of it better.

Another function of the part I is it can give some medicine to the cat.
For example, if the cat hurt itself or it is ill, and part I detects that.
Besides show on the screen,it will also give some medicine as first add.

Another idea is a indoor system,which is similar to the first one.
But it is make up with a flower and an analyze machine.
The analyze machine is like the Part I in Cat reader, But it is installed in human body.
It can tell your mood,then send signal to a receiver which is connected to the plant.
Then the flower will give off different scent to sooth your mood.
Also you can set the flower manually according to your need.
For example you'd like to keep awake or sleep well.

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 16:45, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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====DIYbio and Personalized Medicine====

Andrew Hessel, one of the cofounders of the company [http://pinkarmy.org/ Pink Army Cooperative], an open source project for the development of new, personalized breast cancer treatments . There is a nice video on youtube, where Andrew Hessel talks about the future of synthetic biology and also about the Pink Army: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ0kkgPxJk Andrew Hessel on Youtube].

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:07, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Bacteria for personalized Medicine and other interesting iGEM ideas====

Some iGEM-Teams from 2008 and 2009 worked on using bacteria for personalized medicine. The idea to put them into the human gut and let them react to either internal or external stimuli has led to some interesting wet-lab projects.

Probably most famous in the iGEM-context is the work from Taipei 2008 (have also a look on wiki design an figures): [http://2008.igem.org/Team:NYMU-Taipei Taipei Wiki 2008]

Caltech 2008 took a similar approach: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Caltech Caltech Wiki 2008]

Also interesting: the bacto-joghurt idea by MIT 2008: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:MIT MIT Wiki 2008]

You sould also have a brief look on those projects here, especially on the kind of idea they focus on. All of them are really special in their way:

Edinburgh 2009 on the detection of land mines: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh Edinburgh Wiki 2009]

Calgary 2009 and their human practices project on a Second Life Synhetic Biology world: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Calgary# Calgary Wiki 2009]

Tokyo Tech 2009 on terraforming Mars (very cool idea): [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech Wiki 2009]

Virginia 2009 on water cleaning: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Virginia Virgina Wiki 2009]

Tokyo Tech 2008 on an E. coli based touch display: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech Wiki 2008]

Furthermore, you should have a look at some team presentations. Besides the finalists presentations from 2008 and 2009 that are interesting anyways, the following ones have been really cool and fun:
Tokyo Tech 2009, Calgary 2009

Have fun! I'm looking forward to see you soon in Heidelberg! More information is about to come in this blog, soon.

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 12:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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====“Synthetic Biology” Sparks Nano-Terror Scenario====
[http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/synthetic_biology_sparks_nano-terror_scenario/ Article] about misuses, expected and unexpected consequences of Syn Bio.
Includes some links to other resources about safety issues.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Scienceblogs on Synbio====
Interesting read about Synbio. There is an [http://scienceblogs.com/oscillator/2010/05/synthetic_biology_art.php article] featuring [http://www.tuurvanbalen.com/ Tuur van Balen's] work

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 14:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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====New Scientist CultureLab====
[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-science-poll.php Art meets science: What do you think of it all?]

''Over the next few days we'll be publishing a series of articles looking at art-science collaborations, and to kick things off we've set up a quick survey.'' (New Scientist)

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-when-worlds-collaborate.php Overview]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-curator.php Art meets science: A curator who wants to open windows]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-aesthetics-politics-and-metaphysics.php Art meets science: Aesthetics, politics and metaphysics]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-physicist.php Art meets science: Physicist in a cultural landscape]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-lingua-digica.php Art meets science: Speaking a lingua digica]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-state-of-the-art.php Art meets science: Catch up with the state of the art]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:55, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Cultural Probes====
If you are interested in Design as a research tool, you should
read this.
[http://cleo.ics.uci.edu/teaching/Winter10/231/readings/3-GaverDunnePacenti-CulturalProbes.pdf Cultural Probes]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 16:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Neighborhood Science====
The Medialab Prado in Madrid is calling for collaborators for their Interactivos?'10, the topic is 'Neighborhood Science'.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos10_ciencia_de_barrio_convocatoria_de_colaboradores

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 13:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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====NextNature.net====
Please have a look at http://www.nextnature.net/. There are a couple
Synbio related articles like [http://www.nextnature.net/2010/05/fludoc-glowing-bacteria-tell-if-you-have-flue/ FluDOC – Glowing Bacteria show if you have Influenza]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:42, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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====FYI: Literaturliste Grafik und Gestaltung====
http://web.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Die_neue_U-Bahn#Literatur

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 13:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Michiko Nitta: Extreme Green Guerrillias====
I think we have mentioned the project already, but give it a look.
It is illustrating the implications of extreme sustainable lifestyle, utilising genetic modifications and more.

http://www.myportfolio.me.uk/EGGs.htm

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 10:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Bio-Fiction Film Festival====
There is a synbio film festival in Vienna.
The deadline ( 15. July) is perfect because it's one week after our final presentation.
Should be interesting for some of you.

Have a look.

[http://www.bio-fiction.com/call_for_entries.html bio-fiction.com]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:01, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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====PERFECT BODY (living sex machine)====
I am really sorry that I couldnt be there on thursday for the presentation! So now my work in progress in a short movie - with:

.introduction

.perfect body kit

.magazine

.crossword

.drugstore-tv-spot

<videoflash type="vimeo">11366691|400|300</videoflash>

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 22:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Design will save the world====

Inhabitat.com is an online plattform for ecological und biological projects in architecture, design, technology and art.
Inventions from all over the world are presented here!

It is not directly something about synthetic biology,
but you can still find a lot of nice and inspiring stuff for your work.

http://inhabitat.com

--[[User:Vanessa|Wawa]] 15:43, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
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====(re)Performing the Posthuman====
http://reperformingtheposthuman.yolasite.com/

21/22 may 2010
The programme will include keynotes by Rosemary Klich, Jennifer Parker-
Starbuck and Stelarc, paper presentations, performances, video
showings, a small exhibition space and a gallery in Second Life.

About: "...models of subjectivity that call into question the humanist concept of the body as a biological entity, and as the "container" of the human subject"... "drawing attention to inconsistencies between the theory's wider cultural implications and socio-political realities, others insisting on the possibility of a biological definition of humanness"... "It is therefore now an apposite moment to revisit the idea of the posthuman, and posthumanist approaches to performance art and theatre. The aim of (re)Performing the Posthuman is to create an opportunity to do precisely this and to discuss in what form (if any) non-humanist concepts of the body and subjectivity may still be useful as a conceptual and analytical framework in performance arts."

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 13:21, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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====23andme special offer====

[[File:23andme.png|thumb|left|220px|© 23andMe, Inc. 2009. All rights reserved; distributed pursuant to a Limited License from [http://www.23andme.com/about/tos/ 23andMe]]]
 

Get your genetic health and ancestry checked with
[https://www.23andme.com/store/ 23anme]. Now for only 99$. Or maybe not.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 20:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Mmh, not anymore. Price is back to 499$.

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 08:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Synbio on the go====
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t4fh reportage Synbio (english)]

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3449990 Introduction Synbio (German)]

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3388858 Dsicussion Synbio (German)]

--[[User:JanD|JanD]] 15:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Craig Venter on DNA and the sea====

<videoflash type=youtube>E5X6Qy772YU|437|236</videoflash>

''Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about 
the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the ocean’s 
biodiversity.''

Craig venter surveys the genetic biodiversity. In history surveying often meant taking possession.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 17:35, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Sk-Interfaces_Ausstellung====
http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/html_en/expositions/expoencours_skinterfaces.htm

Die Ausstellung ist leider schon vorbei, dabei waren aber die Größen der Branche: Art Orienté objet, Maurice Benayoun, Zane Berzina, Critical Art Ensemble, Wim Delvoye, Olivier Goulet, Eduardo Kac, Antal Lakner, Yann Marussich, Kira O’Reilly, Zbigniew Oksiuta, ORLAN, Philippe Rahm, Julia Reodica, Stelarc, Jun Takita, The Office of Experiments, The Tissue Culture and Art Project, Sissel Tolaas, Paul Vanouse.

Es gibt ein Minivideo auf der Seite..
--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 22:16, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

es gibt auch ein schönes, interaktives (was den umschlag betrifft) buch dazu!
*SK-Interfaces ISBN 1846311497
<strike>vielleicht was für die bibliothek?</strike> (ist in der Unibibliothek vorhanden --[[User:Max|max]] 20:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC))

--[[User:Ck schroeder|Ck schroeder]] 19:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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====Heterogeneous Home====
http://www.benhooker.com/heterogeneoushome/
 get inspired
 by [[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 20:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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====Try this at home: Extracting Human DNA====
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6950604815683841321&hl=en%23#docid=-4012088783925636893 Instructional video]
 

by [[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 18:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Research/Link: Biopunk Manifesto====
The Biopunk Manifesto by Annalee Newitz [http://www.ekac.org/biopunk.html]

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====Kac goes Hopfengärtner====
Apparently bioart allstar E.Kac features in his recent work methods employed by B.Hopfengärtner a couple of years ago ;)
Eduardo Kac, Lagoglyphs: Lagoogleglyph I (2009)
Google Earth work composed of Lagoglyph installed on the roof of Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, approx. 26 x 56 ft; and custom-ordered WorldView2 satellite photograph. 
Kac: http://www.ekac.org/oi_kac.show_overview.html 
Hopfengärtner: http://hello.w0r1d.net/

Sidenote (Learning from the professionals): Always have female spectators in photographic representation of your artwork.

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==== 22.01.10 Preparation Workshop Heidelberg====

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====iGEM 2009 Team Wash U: Synthetically Regulated Antenna Energy Production in Bioreactors====
This group tries to grow a Alphaproteobacteria wich can be used for Energy Production with less energy wasted

*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Wash_U/Project

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====iGEM 2009 Team Cambridge: E.chromi feat. Daisy Ginsberg + John King====

*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Project/Amplification
*http://ung.igem.org/Results?year=2009

*http://www.echromi.com/
*http://www.daisyginsberg.com/index.html

<videoflash type="vimeo">7466044|400|300</videoflash>

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====DIYbio====
Basierend auf das ArtScienceBangalore/Project des iGEM Wettbewerbs
wurde eine kleine Forschung über "do-it-your-self" möglichkeiten
im eigenen Atelier ein kleines Labor einzurichten mit dem man Biologie "hacken"
kann.
Bei der suche nach Informationen bin ich auf folgende Internetseiten gestoßen
die sich damit befassen:

Eine Seite ist die Amateur-Bio-Hacker Seite DIYbio [http://diybio.org/about/]

In der Stanford School of Medicine - Undersanding Genetics findet man Videos
zu "Do-It-Yourself Strawberry DNA" [http://www.thetech.org/genetics/medicine.php]

Auf der nächsten Seite findet man interessante Artikel mit denen sich das ArtScienceBangalore Project befasst hat zu den Themen:

Art and Politics,Art,Science,Ethics,Design & Technology,Synthetic Biology,General Design Links usw. [http://hackteria.org/wiki/index.php/ArtScience_IGEM_team]

Wenn Salmonellen Leuchten!!
Die OSAKA Gruppe präsentiert ihre Arbeiten.[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Osaka/WORKS]

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====Synthetic Biology Software Suite (SynBioSS)====

*http://synbioss.sourceforge.net/
The Synthetic Biology Software Suite (SynBioSS) is a software suite for the generation, storing, retrieval and quantitative simulation of synthetic biological networks.
The SynBioSS DS is a set of multiscale algorithms for modeling and simulating reaction networks, such as gene regulatory networks.

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====Spectacles - A visual editing framework ====
from the 2009 iGEM UC Berkeley Software Team Wiki
*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Berkeley_Software/Spectacles
for the design of composite biological devices and the assignment of physical samples to functional concepts.

GMU:Synbio

2010-06-06T17:35:46Z

Laura iGem:

====BioArts in Austrian Magazine====

An Austrian magazine for genome research, "Genosphären", is running an issue on BioArts and Synthetic Biology this month [http://www.gen-au.at/artikel.jsp?id=932&base=vermitteln&lang=de]. Since you probably won't get your hands on it, here is a round-up of artists that I could not find on your link-list yet. I am sorry if this is somehow redundant in case I missed blog entries, I tried to search through all of them.

- Jun Takita [http://juntakita.com/eng/home.html] created a model of his brain and planted transgenic moss on it. This moss can glow in the dark due to the Luciferase-Gene. This resembles the complex signals that occur in the brain.

- Gary Schneider, who takes genetic portraits of people (which is admittedly not the most original thing to do) [http://garyschneider.net/Portfolio.cfm?nK=7856]

- Adam Brandejs, who presented his sci-fi product, "Genpets", on a website disguised as a normal webshop and raised some outrage with his anti-allergic perfect pet. [http://www.genpets.com]

- Karsten Panzer, who created a colour-coding for the visiual sensation of genetic information [http://www.perzan.de]

I hope this gives some inspiration!

--[[User:Laura iGem|Laura iGem]] 17:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

====Zeit Artikel====
Synthetische Biologie -Leben 2.0 
Was passiert, wenn es der Bio-Industrie gelingt, den menschlichen Körper neu zu programmieren
* http://www.zeit.de/2010/23/Schoepfungsphantasien
--[[User:Max|max]] 18:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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====The Procreative Dinner====
An ephemeral work between art, science and gastronomy. Happening by Prune. Nice way of bringing people in touch with the topic...and another example of a collabortation of art and science.
* http://www.prune-art.com/blog/en/index.php?menu_id=1

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 14:20, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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====Six part Series "Synthetische Biologie" on D-Radio====
[http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/1077533/ Schwerpunkt Synthetische Biologie] 

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 09:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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====More Photos====

I have uploaded some photos which I took during the retreat. Enjoy [[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/Retreat|it]].! 

--[[User:Sharklu|Sharklu]] 00:36, 2 June 2010 (UTC)Lu Jiayuan
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====Back from the retreat====

The firs images of our lab experiences in Hedeilberg and our fruitful retreat to Asselheim can be found [[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/Retreat|here]]. Please feel free to add more pictures!
--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 16:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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====Richard Jones' comment on Craig Venters successful insertion of a synthetic genome into a bacteria====

"One might almost suspect that there is a symbiosis going on here, between those scientists anxious to maximise the significance of their work, and bioethicists in search of an issue to raise their own profile. After all, if a piece of science is worth worrying about, it must be important. It’s not that I don’t think that these developments have potentially important societal and ethical implications – but it seems to me that these would be better considered from a standpoint that was a little more critical." Richard Jones on his [http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/ Blog].

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 16:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

====First human 'infected with computer virus'====
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10158517.stm Article] on BBC News
 --[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 15:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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====A New Plant====
Hello! Everyone!

I have built my project page... 
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/a new plant| a new plant]] 
Welcome to do something! --[[User:Sharklu|Sharklu]] 16:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC) 
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====To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life – the most pretentious bacterium ever====

''I'd create an animal that excretes meat, just to give vegetarians pause for thought. Ethically, what's the problem with eating a sausage, if it's been harmlessly pooed out by an animal? To sweeten the pill yet further, what if you put pleasure receptors in the animal's colon, so it actively enjoys the sausage-creation process – enjoys it to such a degree that it chases you down the street, yelping in orgasmic delight and producing a string of pan-ready chipolatas? If you think that's disgusting, I'd just like to point out that it's far less revolting than killing a pig with a bolt gun then mashing it up into sausagemeat.'' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/24/charlie-brooker-artificial-life-here Charlie Brooker: So, artificial life is here, courtesy of Craig Venter. Time to remix humankind…]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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====Some more links on synthetic life====
[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18942-immaculate-creation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html Newscienist: Immaculate creation: birth of the first synthetic cell]

[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?ref=science NYTimes: Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 09:17, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
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===='''Kokoromo : My project is online====

So I also put up my project...
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/ko_ko_ro_mo| ko_ko_ro_mo]]

Please don't be shy and have a look.

I really look forward to discuss it with you all.

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 23:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Response to 'My Flower'====

First response is written ^^

Have fun!

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 15:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

====Update on my page====
Hello everybody. 
There is new content on my project page. 
It's about my ideas of improving my project. 
The link is below: 
*[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]

Please visit and leave comment! 
Thanks!

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 12:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Pass the impossimpleble :)====
Oh my! Are they already this far in development?

I found a pretty amazing TV documentation-series,
(if you can call like that...because its more a idealistic utopia),
of the berlin TVchannel Phoenix.
It is about the possibilities which may occur while living in future with new technologies. It think it would be very interessting for some of you.

To my shame it is only in german at the moment,
but under the link you can find some informations to the technolgies and the scientists.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVS_HvgFfw&feature=PlayList&p=C62483CC011D4E91&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=18] Here comes part 1 of 3

First Episode - Living in the future - Humans

--> houses and also clothes will be connected to the internet to control our
health und living status every single moment
electronic fibre by Dr. Prof. Sundaresan Jayaraman
(Georgie Institute of Technology)
--> cars will fly in the air with a satelite electronical guide system
to provied us from traffic jams and accidents
flying car by Dr. Paul Moller (Moller International)
--> stemcells can be used to create new organs
tissue engineering by Dr. Stefan Jockenhövel
(Helmholz-Institute for biomedical technique)
--> 3D genomic printer to create organs layer by layer
by Dr. Prof. Thomas Boland (Clemson University)
--> food wont make us fat anymore because of genetic engineered proteins
by Dr. Prof. Med. Rob Hammer (Wageningen Centre of Food Science)
--> cure paraplegia or other neural-muscular deseases
with electronic sensor body-implants you can control with your thoughts
sensors by Prof. Dr. John Donoghue (Brown University)
--> computer surgery sytems controlled by doctors for precise working
and without viral infections
by Dr. Oliver Burgert (innovation-centre for computer-assisted surgery)

But all that glitters is not gold? Or?

Here also a small outlook what may happend with our health system in future.
Also german *yeah I know I know thats stupid*.

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3961048]
It is called: 'Leichen im Keller' or like the englisch proverb 'scelletons in the (closet) cellar'

I think it is rather nice^^

I look foward to have some smalltalk about the chances and risks of synbio with you all.

--[[User:Wawa|Wawa]] 18:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Its done====
How does it feel to have created artificial life, Dr Venter?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/dr-craig-venter-so-doctor-how-does-it-feel-to-have-created-artificial-life-1978873.html

http://www.culturalfarming.com/Resources/civic_media/PostHuman.mov

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 07:53, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form article]@Guardian.co.uk. Watch the video.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:03, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Links to my project====
Hello everbody!
I'm Yu Xiaorui
I add a link to my Project.
You can Find it in the main page of Synthetic Biology Wiki
Or Click here:
* '''[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]''' I put my review about the presentation I made today on. 

'''Please go and leave comment or suggestion!
That's very important to me!'''
 BTW, thank the comment left by Dominic,very helpful! 

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 17:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Comment====

Now, the scientific standpoint concerning your ideas, Yu.

1st idea) Analyzing the heartbeat, blood pressure and temperature is a pretty good starting point. Those are, by the way, non-invasive standard techniques used in every hospital today (as you know). So the idea to measure those is not far fetched.
Those indicators can indeed tell you, if there is something really wrong with your cat. But they are insufficient for the diagnosis of a certain disease or even a certain mood. If the cat is excitet blood pressure, heartbeat and temperature will go up, probably. The same could happen if the cat gets sick.

So what came to my mind was whether you should think about adding some more "input" parameters. I listed some of those in the last comment I made below (hormones, gene expression detecteble from RNA in human blood).

I like the idea about a screen, that will show the result of the analyses and system that would then treat the cat with a kind of special drug. You should probably think about the way, this treatment could happen. Is there i.e. a machine inside the cat that would apply those drugs? Are there cells that would produce the drugs? If so, how would they get the message, that they sould produce a drug? (the latter two thinks are typical synthetic biology problems and thus very interesting, indeed).

2nd idea) I like this idea very much! Again, you should thinks about the parameters you want to use in order to detect the mood of a person. As I said, hormones could be a very good indicator. Bernd presented a very nice animation about facial pattern recognition to us in Heidelberg once. If you didn't see it before, you should probably have a look at it [http://www.vimeo.com/3381151 here] (I hope that is the right one...).

What I really love about this idea is the plant part. Plants making any kind of scent in order to smoothen your mood is really cool and would for sure need synthetic biology for engineering those plants. So the direction is really good in my opinion.

The interface between the human feelings and the plant is of course important in your project. Think about possible ways, that could be done. What I can tell you already is, that people are working hard in order to conntect cells (i.e. neurons, that means nerve cells) with computers. It has been shown in many studies that you can use elecrtricity in order to influence cells. Another good input is light, for example. Recent studies show, that light can be used in order switch on or off different (previously engineered) systems in a cell.
So what comes to my mind is: What about putting the plants under a certain light source. In case the person is agressive, red light is turned on and the plant will start to produce a sweet smell or something.
In case a person is tired, the light will turn green and the plant produces a smell that will make the person wake up and so on.
So light whould be used to switch between the ordors produced.
In the synthetic biology reader I send to sebastian (I don't know whether you got that one) therer is a nice article where light was used in order to controll the movement of a simple worm-like organism.
Just as a rough suggestion.

The light sourece could be controlled by a computer that estimates the mood of the person from the different parameters.
So controlling behaviour of organisms using light should be possible.

Good luck for your work! I really liked those ideas pretty much!!

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:42, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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====General Information and some specific Information about future vision of Personalized Medicine====

Some general hopefully interesting info for some of you. The personalized medicine idea (bacteria in gut) and some other ideas pointet me to a documentation I once saw in the ZDF about a future vision of our life and society.
This documentary series called "2057- Unser Leben in der Zukunft" ran some time ago. Although one could controversely discuss the scientific content in those documentations, I find they are interesting and they might be inspiring. The first episode is about future healthcare and personalized medicine. Although some of the ideas sound strange at first hand, people are already working on many of those (i.e. the organ inject printer) [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070221093208.htm]
You can find the ZDF documentary series here: [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2057+unser+leben+in+der+zukunft&aq=f Youtube: 2057- Unser Leben in der Zukunft]

b) The movie GATTACA might also be interesting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca Wikipedia: GATTACA]

Furthermore, I already told you about sequencing from simple blood samples.
Sequencing is the technology used to read the genetic code (AGCTTACCTTACC...). Therefor physical DNA (or RNA, I come to that later) is needed. DNA can simply be taken out from cells, i.e. cells of your skin or even blood plasm and serum. You can find some Information about DNA Sequencing on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequencing Wikipedia].

So why is that interesting?

1) Well, i.e. for diagnosis of genetic diseases. Recent studies showed, that DNA sequencing from the blood of pregnant women can be used to determine whether the fetus (baby) has the predisposition for a certain genetic disease. Keep in mind, that the DNA is sort of the genetic building plan of evey cell. So you can get information about this building plan and whether it has some errors here and there. Find some information about DNA Sequencing from blood [http://www.pnas.org/content/105/42/16266.full here].

2) Sequencing not the DNA, but the RNA is also very interesting, as the amount of RNA present in a cell gives you information about the gene expression (= the genes turned on and those turned off at a certain timepoint). RNA is the molecule that is used to translate the messages coded on the DNA in a from, that the inner cell machinary can read this massage and make the proteins. Proteins are the effector molecules and can be seen as the little machines, controlling the behaviour of a cell (i.e. energy production, movement, cell division- nearly everything). Strongly simplified, one can say, that one gene codes for a certain RNA and that RNA codes for a certain protein.

DNA --> RNA --> Protein

The more RNAs of the same type are present in a cell, the more proteins of the same type are made. So, if I do RNA sequencing, I get the information about the genes that are turned on or off, and I can even tell in which ratio that happenes. Biologists are talking about gene overexpression (= genes turned on at a higher level than normal) and underexpression (= genes turned on at a lower level than normal).
Unnormal gene expression is a typical indicator for a disregulation in a cell and can therefor be indicator for a disease. In many diseases the gene expression (and therefor the gene regulation) is unnormal. But not only diseases lead to different gene expression: When you eat and drink, when you jump into cold water and in other situations gene expression might be altered.

Coming back to the point: Sequencing RNA from human blood is possible since some years. In the future, as automated sequencing gets better and cheaper, that could give us the oppotunity to have a sort of online-look onto our gene expression. We would simply take blood samples and put them into a full-automatic (pocket?) sequencer.

Today, RNA analysis from blood samples is used i.e. for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test HIV-diagnosis] and is also taken into account for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test cancer diagnosis]. In general, if the RNA sequencing from blood will get better and better, we will probably be able to look at our gene expression profile online!

Despite those technologies, another important marker in the blood, especially for the detection of the mood and feelings of the persons are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormones hormones]. Hormones have been shown to have a strong influence on many body functions, including blood pressure and heartbeat. Furthermore they have a strong influence on the way we feel and act. Lovers have a certain hormone-cocktail in their blood, people being excited or agressive have a high adrenaline level in their blood. In animal studies it was shown, that by injecting a certain hormone into animals normally not living in groups, they would be nice and friendly living with the group of their kind afterwards (I will look up which animal that was and add that later).

I hope their has been at least some interesting information in this much too long paragraph :)

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:16, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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====My ideas about this project====
I have some more ideas about this project.
Please make comment and let me know if they are good！
If you know some scientific Theories which can support my idea,Please tell me!
I really appreciate for that!

First one I call it Cat reader.
It has two parts.
Part I you can put it in your car's body.
It will analyze the datas of your cat,heart beat, blood pressure锛?temperature ect.
By these, it can tell the mood of your cat and its health situation.

The result will be showed in part II, which is a pet collar with a screen.
Through this the owner can see how is the cat doing.
Hungry, thirsty, sick,angry or happy.Then he can take care of it better.

Another function of the part I is it can give some medicine to the cat.
For example, if the cat hurt itself or it is ill, and part I detects that.
Besides show on the screen,it will also give some medicine as first add.

Another idea is a indoor system,which is similar to the first one.
But it is make up with a flower and an analyze machine.
The analyze machine is like the Part I in Cat reader, But it is installed in human body.
It can tell your mood,then send signal to a receiver which is connected to the plant.
Then the flower will give off different scent to sooth your mood.
Also you can set the flower manually according to your need.
For example you'd like to keep awake or sleep well.

--[[User:yuxiaorui|Yu Xiaorui]] 16:45, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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====DIYbio and Personalized Medicine====

Andrew Hessel, one of the cofounders of the company [http://pinkarmy.org/ Pink Army Cooperative], an open source project for the development of new, personalized breast cancer treatments . There is a nice video on youtube, where Andrew Hessel talks about the future of synthetic biology and also about the Pink Army: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ0kkgPxJk Andrew Hessel on Youtube].

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 13:07, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Bacteria for personalized Medicine and other interesting iGEM ideas====

Some iGEM-Teams from 2008 and 2009 worked on using bacteria for personalized medicine. The idea to put them into the human gut and let them react to either internal or external stimuli has led to some interesting wet-lab projects.

Probably most famous in the iGEM-context is the work from Taipei 2008 (have also a look on wiki design an figures): [http://2008.igem.org/Team:NYMU-Taipei Taipei Wiki 2008]

Caltech 2008 took a similar approach: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Caltech Caltech Wiki 2008]

Also interesting: the bacto-joghurt idea by MIT 2008: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:MIT MIT Wiki 2008]

You sould also have a brief look on those projects here, especially on the kind of idea they focus on. All of them are really special in their way:

Edinburgh 2009 on the detection of land mines: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh Edinburgh Wiki 2009]

Calgary 2009 and their human practices project on a Second Life Synhetic Biology world: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Calgary# Calgary Wiki 2009]

Tokyo Tech 2009 on terraforming Mars (very cool idea): [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech Wiki 2009]

Virginia 2009 on water cleaning: [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Virginia Virgina Wiki 2009]

Tokyo Tech 2008 on an E. coli based touch display: [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech Wiki 2008]

Furthermore, you should have a look at some team presentations. Besides the finalists presentations from 2008 and 2009 that are interesting anyways, the following ones have been really cool and fun:
Tokyo Tech 2009, Calgary 2009

Have fun! I'm looking forward to see you soon in Heidelberg! More information is about to come in this blog, soon.

--[[User:dniopek|Dominik Niopek]] 12:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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====“Synthetic Biology” Sparks Nano-Terror Scenario====
[http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/synthetic_biology_sparks_nano-terror_scenario/ Article] about misuses, expected and unexpected consequences of Syn Bio.
Includes some links to other resources about safety issues.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Scienceblogs on Synbio====
Interesting read about Synbio. There is an [http://scienceblogs.com/oscillator/2010/05/synthetic_biology_art.php article] featuring [http://www.tuurvanbalen.com/ Tuur van Balen's] work

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 14:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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====New Scientist CultureLab====
[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-science-poll.php Art meets science: What do you think of it all?]

''Over the next few days we'll be publishing a series of articles looking at art-science collaborations, and to kick things off we've set up a quick survey.'' (New Scientist)

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-when-worlds-collaborate.php Overview]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-curator.php Art meets science: A curator who wants to open windows]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-aesthetics-politics-and-metaphysics.php Art meets science: Aesthetics, politics and metaphysics]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-physicist.php Art meets science: Physicist in a cultural landscape]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-lingua-digica.php Art meets science: Speaking a lingua digica]

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/05/art-meets-science-state-of-the-art.php Art meets science: Catch up with the state of the art]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:55, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Cultural Probes====
If you are interested in Design as a research tool, you should
read this.
[http://cleo.ics.uci.edu/teaching/Winter10/231/readings/3-GaverDunnePacenti-CulturalProbes.pdf Cultural Probes]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 16:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Neighborhood Science====
The Medialab Prado in Madrid is calling for collaborators for their Interactivos?'10, the topic is 'Neighborhood Science'.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos10_ciencia_de_barrio_convocatoria_de_colaboradores

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 13:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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====NextNature.net====
Please have a look at http://www.nextnature.net/. There are a couple
Synbio related articles like [http://www.nextnature.net/2010/05/fludoc-glowing-bacteria-tell-if-you-have-flue/ FluDOC – Glowing Bacteria show if you have Influenza]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:42, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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====FYI: Literaturliste Grafik und Gestaltung====
http://web.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Die_neue_U-Bahn#Literatur

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 13:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Michiko Nitta: Extreme Green Guerrillias====
I think we have mentioned the project already, but give it a look.
It is illustrating the implications of extreme sustainable lifestyle, utilising genetic modifications and more.

http://www.myportfolio.me.uk/EGGs.htm

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 10:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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====Bio-Fiction Film Festival====
There is a synbio film festival in Vienna.
The deadline ( 15. July) is perfect because it's one week after our final presentation.
Should be interesting for some of you.

Have a look.

[http://www.bio-fiction.com/call_for_entries.html bio-fiction.com]

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 12:01, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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====PERFECT BODY (living sex machine)====
I am really sorry that I couldnt be there on thursday for the presentation! So now my work in progress in a short movie - with:

.introduction

.perfect body kit

.magazine

.crossword

.drugstore-tv-spot

<videoflash type="vimeo">11366691|400|300</videoflash>

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 22:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Design will save the world====

Inhabitat.com is an online plattform for ecological und biological projects in architecture, design, technology and art.
Inventions from all over the world are presented here!

It is not directly something about synthetic biology,
but you can still find a lot of nice and inspiring stuff for your work.

http://inhabitat.com

--[[User:Vanessa|Wawa]] 15:43, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
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====(re)Performing the Posthuman====
http://reperformingtheposthuman.yolasite.com/

21/22 may 2010
The programme will include keynotes by Rosemary Klich, Jennifer Parker-
Starbuck and Stelarc, paper presentations, performances, video
showings, a small exhibition space and a gallery in Second Life.

About: "...models of subjectivity that call into question the humanist concept of the body as a biological entity, and as the "container" of the human subject"... "drawing attention to inconsistencies between the theory's wider cultural implications and socio-political realities, others insisting on the possibility of a biological definition of humanness"... "It is therefore now an apposite moment to revisit the idea of the posthuman, and posthumanist approaches to performance art and theatre. The aim of (re)Performing the Posthuman is to create an opportunity to do precisely this and to discuss in what form (if any) non-humanist concepts of the body and subjectivity may still be useful as a conceptual and analytical framework in performance arts."

--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 13:21, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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====23andme special offer====

[[File:23andme.png|thumb|left|220px|© 23andMe, Inc. 2009. All rights reserved; distributed pursuant to a Limited License from [http://www.23andme.com/about/tos/ 23andMe]]]
 

Get your genetic health and ancestry checked with
[https://www.23andme.com/store/ 23anme]. Now for only 99$. Or maybe not.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 20:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Mmh, not anymore. Price is back to 499$.

--[[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 08:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Synbio on the go====
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t4fh reportage Synbio (english)]

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3449990 Introduction Synbio (German)]

[http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=3388858 Dsicussion Synbio (German)]

--[[User:JanD|JanD]] 15:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Craig Venter on DNA and the sea====

<videoflash type=youtube>E5X6Qy772YU|437|236</videoflash>

''Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about 
the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the ocean’s 
biodiversity.''

Craig venter surveys the genetic biodiversity. In history surveying often meant taking possession.

--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 17:35, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Sk-Interfaces_Ausstellung====
http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/html_en/expositions/expoencours_skinterfaces.htm

Die Ausstellung ist leider schon vorbei, dabei waren aber die Größen der Branche: Art Orienté objet, Maurice Benayoun, Zane Berzina, Critical Art Ensemble, Wim Delvoye, Olivier Goulet, Eduardo Kac, Antal Lakner, Yann Marussich, Kira O’Reilly, Zbigniew Oksiuta, ORLAN, Philippe Rahm, Julia Reodica, Stelarc, Jun Takita, The Office of Experiments, The Tissue Culture and Art Project, Sissel Tolaas, Paul Vanouse.

Es gibt ein Minivideo auf der Seite..
--[[User:Mila|Mila]] 22:16, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

es gibt auch ein schönes, interaktives (was den umschlag betrifft) buch dazu!
*SK-Interfaces ISBN 1846311497
<strike>vielleicht was für die bibliothek?</strike> (ist in der Unibibliothek vorhanden --[[User:Max|max]] 20:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC))

--[[User:Ck schroeder|Ck schroeder]] 19:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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====Heterogeneous Home====
http://www.benhooker.com/heterogeneoushome/
 get inspired
 by [[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 20:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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====Try this at home: Extracting Human DNA====
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6950604815683841321&hl=en%23#docid=-4012088783925636893 Instructional video]
 

by [[User:Sebastian|sebastian]] 18:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Research/Link: Biopunk Manifesto====
The Biopunk Manifesto by Annalee Newitz [http://www.ekac.org/biopunk.html]

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====Kac goes Hopfengärtner====
Apparently bioart allstar E.Kac features in his recent work methods employed by B.Hopfengärtner a couple of years ago ;)
Eduardo Kac, Lagoglyphs: Lagoogleglyph I (2009)
Google Earth work composed of Lagoglyph installed on the roof of Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, approx. 26 x 56 ft; and custom-ordered WorldView2 satellite photograph. 
Kac: http://www.ekac.org/oi_kac.show_overview.html 
Hopfengärtner: http://hello.w0r1d.net/

Sidenote (Learning from the professionals): Always have female spectators in photographic representation of your artwork.

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====iGEM 2009 Team Wash U: Synthetically Regulated Antenna Energy Production in Bioreactors====
This group tries to grow a Alphaproteobacteria wich can be used for Energy Production with less energy wasted

*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Wash_U/Project

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====iGEM 2009 Team Cambridge: E.chromi feat. Daisy Ginsberg + John King====

*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Project/Amplification
*http://ung.igem.org/Results?year=2009

*http://www.echromi.com/
*http://www.daisyginsberg.com/index.html

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====DIYbio====
Basierend auf das ArtScienceBangalore/Project des iGEM Wettbewerbs
wurde eine kleine Forschung über "do-it-your-self" möglichkeiten
im eigenen Atelier ein kleines Labor einzurichten mit dem man Biologie "hacken"
kann.
Bei der suche nach Informationen bin ich auf folgende Internetseiten gestoßen
die sich damit befassen:

Eine Seite ist die Amateur-Bio-Hacker Seite DIYbio [http://diybio.org/about/]

In der Stanford School of Medicine - Undersanding Genetics findet man Videos
zu "Do-It-Yourself Strawberry DNA" [http://www.thetech.org/genetics/medicine.php]

Auf der nächsten Seite findet man interessante Artikel mit denen sich das ArtScienceBangalore Project befasst hat zu den Themen:

Art and Politics,Art,Science,Ethics,Design & Technology,Synthetic Biology,General Design Links usw. [http://hackteria.org/wiki/index.php/ArtScience_IGEM_team]

Wenn Salmonellen Leuchten!!
Die OSAKA Gruppe präsentiert ihre Arbeiten.[http://2009.igem.org/Team:Osaka/WORKS]

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====Synthetic Biology Software Suite (SynBioSS)====

*http://synbioss.sourceforge.net/
The Synthetic Biology Software Suite (SynBioSS) is a software suite for the generation, storing, retrieval and quantitative simulation of synthetic biological networks.
The SynBioSS DS is a set of multiscale algorithms for modeling and simulating reaction networks, such as gene regulatory networks.

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====Spectacles - A visual editing framework ====
from the 2009 iGEM UC Berkeley Software Team Wiki
*http://2009.igem.org/Team:Berkeley_Software/Spectacles
for the design of composite biological devices and the assignment of physical samples to functional concepts.