NSF Grant to Launch World’s First Open-Source Production For the Genetic Fund Shares

To better achieve its objectives, the BIOFAB is also fully integrate the ethics of research in its production planning and operations.Today, only a designer microbe can take years to build and cost tens of millions of dollars, since each element of control – a transcription factor or promoter – to be identified, characterized and refined for reuse. A project of the University of Berkeley to engineer microbes to produce artemisinin malaria took 10 years to leave the laboratory small-scale production, at a cost of $ 25 million.

The BIOFAB the name of production, or Fab, the laboratories of services established in the semiconductor industry soon to make it easier for small academic laboratories and industry to design and produce small quantities of custom chips. With computer-aided design (CAD), rapid prototyping services and their laboratories, Fab Labs could quickly produce innovative devices are not yet ready for mass production...