Tag Archives: synthetic biology
CRISPR-based Epigenome Editing: Author Q&A with Alun Luo
Scott Edmunds - April 24, 2018
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has opened new horizons in what can be done with genome editing. Here we present an author Q&A with Alun Yonglun Luo discussing his new paper in GigaScience moving this technology towards epigenome editing and testing its efficacy and accuracy. Modulating Methylation: Epigenome Editing With our scope focussing the “biological big data” […]
Guest Blog from Huanming Yang on using the human genome for big-data storage
Scott Edmunds - September 7, 2017
Guest Blog from BGI founder Huanming Yang on synthetic biology, DNA synthesis and using the human genome for big-data storage
Synthetic Genomics: Redesign and synthesis of the first multicellular eukaryotic genome
Scott Edmunds - January 30, 2015
Guest post from researchers at BGI and Edinburgh University on where organismal scale “synthetic genomics” is going.