Synthetic Biology UK 2017

27-28th November 2017, Manchester Conference Centre, UK. The SynBio UK conference aims to showcase UK Synthetic Biology research and to create a focal point for the community, embracing its diversity and fostering its growth and its engagement with society. Held in...

C3 Bio-Technologies Ltd

A spin out company, C3 Bio-Technologies Ltd, was incorporated to utilise synthetic biology to facilitate the production of propane.  The company seeks to develop an economically-sustainable manufacturing process for full-scale bio-propane production and brings...

SpeedyGenes gene synthesis method

A new chapter in Methods Mol. Biol. (Currin et al, 2017. Vol 1472, 63-78) describes our SpeedyGenes method that allows the assembly of DNA sequences with fewer errors and its use to encode extensive, statistically designed sequence variation at any position in the...

Biosynthesis of semi-synthetic antibiotics

A major new collaboration between members of SYNBIOCHEM and the John Innes Centre, funded by BBRSC/EPSRC and Innovate UK, will explore SynBio approaches for the total biosynthesis of semi-synthetic antibiotics. Natural products are molecules typically produced by...