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Drew Endy & Jim Thomas “Synthetic Biology Debate”

The Long Now Foundation organized a public debate on synthetic biology

Living science : Going back to the top

PIERRE TAMBOURIN Genopole director, CHRISTIAN LAJOUX Leem président and JEAN-CLAUDE MULLER Medicen président want to raise the priorities for living sciences in France

Pacte pour la Recherche

Conférence de presse de Gilles de Robien et de François Goulard sur l'avant-projet de loi de programme pour la Recherche (5 octobre 2005)

Press release (september, 15, 2005) : The scientific foundation Fourmentin-Guilbert grants financial support to the team Nanomanipulation of Biomolecules of the Jacques Monod Institute

 

Bio programming

 

Sputnik, the cannibal virus

When a virus parasites another virus

Synthetic DNA

 

Design of new forms of life

 

How single-celled organisms combined into many-celled creatures ?

 

Biofuels : what's new ?

 

Pasteur Institute is 120 years old

At the occasion of the 120 years of Pasteur Institute, a whole magazine (Pasteur le Mag') is dedicated to Louis Pasteur's vision, to the major advances such vision contributed to achieve in microbiology, immunology, molecular biology and neurobiology.

T.Strick awarded by ERC

 

LifeExplorer at IMVIE4

A demonstration of the LifeExplorer software will be carried out during the conference IMVIE4 (Imagerie pour les sciences du Vivant) focusing this year on the "X-ray synchrotron micro-imaging for biomedical research". It will held in Paris on march 26 and 27 2008.

One more step toward synthetic life

After the publication in Science of a paper relating the synthesis of a 582,970 bp Mycoplasma genitalium genome by the J. Craig Venter Institute, Wired gives insight into what synthetic biology is.

First Release of LifeExplorer

A first release of the LifeExplorer software is now available for beta-test users. The video presents first attemps to reconstruct in 3D an e. Coli bacteria.

Open Source, Genetically Engineered Machines From a Kit?

The BioBricks initiative

Biology Big Bang

According to The Economist: What physics was to the 20th century, biology will be to the 21st—and RNA will be a vital part of it

New Science Of Metagenomics to Transform Modern Microbiology?

Metagenomics watches the DNA of whole communities of microbes to better understand the microbial world

Les Echos publie un dossier sur la recherche biomédicale

Le bilan de la recherche française

An architectural plan of the cell

Scientists produce the first high resolution 3D image of a complete eukaryotic cell