3D Bioprinting: A Solution To The Organ Shortage Crisis?Every 9 minutes, another person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. At least 17 people die each day waiting for an…Apr 30, 2021Apr 30, 2021
Diving into Drug Discovery and DevelopmentDeveloping a drug costs an estimated US$2.6 billion. Since 9 out of 10 drug candidates never reach the market, much of this money is…Apr 16, 2021Apr 16, 2021
Advances in Bioinformatics with AIBiology has hit its big data period. Driven by lower sequencing costs, there is more biological data from genomic sequences, molecular…Jan 18, 2021Jan 18, 2021
How We Could Treat Diseases With BiocomputersWhat if your body could monitor itself to detect and treat diseases before symptoms even manifest?Jan 1, 2021Jan 1, 2021
What AlphaFold Means for Structural BioinformaticsBy understanding how biological macromolecules, like proteins, DNA, and RNA, coil into three-dimensional shapes, researchers can study how…Dec 30, 20201Dec 30, 20201
Could (and Should) We Become Biological Programmers?Before diving headfirst into synthetic biology and bioengineering in the last months, I was already attracted to computer science or…Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020
Build a Synthetic Biological Circuit at HomeThe trillions of cells in your body have the ability to detect and respond to various stimuli and inputs, coordinate tasks, build…Dec 26, 2020Dec 26, 2020
Published inBioeconomy.XYZA Primer on Protein EngineeringProteins are responsible for most of the work done in cells. From the structure and function to the repair and regulation of tissues and…Dec 15, 2020Dec 15, 2020
Convert Text to a DNA Sequence with PythonDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a promising storage medium, capable of storing and archiving our abundance of data.Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
Published inBioeconomy.XYZStoring digital data in DNA: The futureBy the end of 2020, the entire digital universe will be made up of 44 zettabytes of data (a zettabyte is 1 billion terabytes). That’s a…Nov 24, 2020Nov 24, 2020
