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		<title>U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy soliciting your feedback on &#8220;Improving Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research&#8221; until Dec 20, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, under directives from the President Obama administration, is soliciting public feedback. Note the deadline!  (Dec. 10th-20th)

Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 7:25 pm by Public Interest Declassification Forum
By Diane DiEuliis and Robynn Sturm
Yesterday we announced the launch of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Meat 2.0&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In synthetic biology conferences, engineering improvements of food is listed in the top three applications of the new technology.  As an example, George Church&#8217;s lab developed a genetic engineering technology specifically aimed at evolving super-tomatoes containing high amounts of the anti-oxident lycopene, as proof-of-concept.  Frequent brainstorming &#8220;what could syn bio do?&#8221; sessions include ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battery-powered, Pocket-sized PCR Thermocycler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, some bright students at Texas A&#38;M improved upon the most basic tool for manipulating microbiology: a thermocycler.   Thermocyclers are typically large tabletop instruments which require a large sample, a lot of electrical power, and a lot of time to heat and cool.  Alternatively, the process can be done by hand with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Always Trust Open Source Software.  Why Trust Open Source Biology?</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/389?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The software you are happily using may be.. unnecessarily brittle. Recently I&#8217;ve been developing a little bit of high-level software using open source libraries.  Sometimes it amazes me that open source software works at all.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the internals I found in the open source library when I looked at why it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Development of Synthetic Biology Products</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/374?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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&#8220;BIO hosted a round-table discussion with leading-edge companies on technical and commercial advances in applications of synthetic biology. Speakers in the session represent leading firms in the field, Amyris, BioBricks Foundation, Verdezyne and Codexis.&#8221;

The Progress in Commercial Development of Synthetic Biology Applications podcast can be listened to at this link.
BIO is a biotechnology advocacy, business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioMOO, the biologists&#8217; (biohackers) virtual meeting place; in 1994</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in 1994, a university obtained some funding and set up BioMOO:
BioMOO is a virtual meeting place for biologists, connected to the Globewide Network Academy. The main physical part of BioMOO is located at the BioInformatics Unit of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
BioMOO is a professional community of Biology researchers. It is a place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments Re: Woodrow Wilson International Center&#8217;s Talk on Synthetic Biology: Feasibility of the Open Source Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a recent talk on Synthetic Biology, Patents, and Open Source.  This talk is now available via the web; link below.  I&#8217;ve written some comments on viewing the talk, also below.
WASHINGTON &#8211; Wednesday, June 17, 2009 &#8211; Synthetic biology is developing into one of the most exciting fields [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPhone 3.0 as next generation Biomedical device</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/268?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s developer preview today, of iPhone 3.0 software, included the interesting news of support for external accessories, either connected through the physical docking connector or through Bluetooth wireless.

A spokesman from Johnson &#38; Johnson announced an iPhone-blood-pressure-monitor accessory, which provides health biometrics and allows the biometrics to be sent over the iPhone&#8217;s network connection as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic Biology Conference 4.0 videos now online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the Synthetic Biology 4.0 conference videos online.]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Needs a PCR Machine</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/262?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/262#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1970&#8217;s, groups of nerdy engineers with hacked-up electronics would meet at &#8220;homebrew computing clubs&#8221; to share technology and share the vision of a world where &#8220;everyone has a home computer for running personal software.&#8221;  A couple of these guys like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were part of the tornado, and look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Make the News Headlines: &#8220;Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/234?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/234#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a nice holiday surprise for me this week, my project (Melaminometer) &#38; a team member (Meredith L. Patterson) made it into Associated Press science news: &#8220;Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home&#8221;.  The article is accurate, and quoted below.  For the melaminometer project, we are also collaborating with Taipei National Yang Ming University.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_sc/do_it_yourself_dna
Amateurs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fundamental Problems in Open Source &#8212; What&#8217;s the Bio Fix?</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/225?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synthetic biology aims to create biological parts which can be connected together to form larger functional devices, and many hope the most poplar library of parts will be &#8220;Open Source&#8221;.  Openly publishing large collections of biological parts is great, as it would rapidly accelerate engineering progress and rapidly diseminate the technology.
There&#8217;s one big drawback to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Average Americans are Scared of &#8220;Synthetic Biology&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/210?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/210#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, believe it, non-synthetic biologists have a poor, even fearful, associations when synthetic biology is described to them:
Q: How do the descriptions of these technologies [synthetic biology] make you feel?
Female Respondent: I really thought of sci-fi movies, where, um, something is created in a laboratory, and it always seems great in the beginning, um, but, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skunkworks Bioengineering &#8212; Prerequisites to Success?</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/174?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/174#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Despite all the support and money evident in the projects, there is absolutely no reason this work could not be done in a garage.  And all of the parts for these projects are now available from the Registry.&#8221;  &#8212; Rob Carlson, iGEM 2008: Surprise &#8212; The Future is Here Already, Nov 2008.

The question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Share-Alike Genetic Engineering Intellectual Property Licenses</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/161?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/161#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bio-Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A draft legal license for BioBricks was created early in 2008, though as far as I know, it has not been &#8220;tested&#8221; by industry use of the intellectual property (anyone know?).  Surprisingly, to me, the draft BioBrick license doesn&#8217;t contain any liability statements.  The BioBrick license attempts to solidify the &#8220;open source&#8221;ness of biological components.
Compare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008’s Thinking on Biological Engineering Business</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/155?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One set of perspectives on systems biology startup business for 2008.
Institute of Biological Engineering&#8217;s
Bio-Business Nexus 2008
From OpenWetWare



Presenter
Title
Presentation


Dr. Rob Whitehead
North Carolina State University Office of Technology Transfer-putting ideas to work
Media:1.Whitehead &#8211; IBE NCSU March2008.pdf


Michael Batalia, Ph.D.
Avant-Garde Technology Transfer Leading Innovation at Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Media:2. Batalia &#8211; 2008 IBE BioBusiness Nexus_MAB.pdf


John C. Draper, President, First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007&#8217;s Thinking on Biological Engineering Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentations below were given at the  Institute of Biological Engineering  annual meeting March 30, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri, under the topic of BioBusiness.
The Mellitz presentation is very good reading.

BioBusiness Nexus Presentations 2007
 Mellitz presentation: Commercialization of University IP: Translational Research in BME Leading to Company Formation
 Nidus Center presentation
 BioGenerator presentation: Bridging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a Market Model for Synthetic Biology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask most incumbents in the field of biology, they&#8217;ll likely say: &#8220;What exactly is synthetic biology?&#8221;
Maybe they should watch Drew Endy&#8217;s video on YouTube.
However, really, synthetic biology is the simple extension of modern biology.  Not too long ago, it wasn&#8217;t possible to &#8220;make&#8221; biology.  Now, it is possible (also known as: synthesis).  And [...]]]></description>
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