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14 Aug 2023: Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being. ... increasing sense that, over coming years, conservation and synthetic

14 Aug 2023: 17. 4: Pathway Engineering – Bug Sweatshops. 19. 5: Expanding Earth’s Genetic System – Alien Genetics. ... 4. Pathway Engineering – Bug Sweatshops. 5. Expanding Earth’s Genetic System – Alien Genetics.

14 Aug 2023: How people determine whether something is alive and whether micro-organisms are seen to be alive. • ... How and if people view this technology as different to that of ‘GM’ and why.

14 Aug 2023: PRO. JECT. REP. ORT. EU. R 2. 1796. Synthetic BiologyApplying Engineering to Biology. Report of a NEST High-Level Expert Group. Interested in European research? RTD info is our quarterly magazine keeping you in touch with main developments (results,

14 Aug 2023: For Kew collected material, Kew checks that, before going into the field, people have done their paperwork and have the necessary permits for collecting. ... They want to avoid people moving away from certain areas of research or from working with

14 Aug 2023: The authors acknowledge the many people that made this workshop possible.

14 Aug 2023: Sugarcane cultivation is a major driver of deforestation and land degradation, as well as being an industry notorious for violent displacement of people from their lands, and slave labor conditions.57.

14 Aug 2023: The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 saved the lives of countless people battling with the number one cause of death in the last centur y – bacterial infections. ... And the Green Revolution, a synonym for advances in the

14 Aug 2023: Prof Jim Haseloff. Head of the lab, with a history of research in plant viroids, RNA enzymes and engineering approaches to plant development. Current interests are in simple open systems for engineering plant growth. Dr Facundo Romani. Facundo is an

14 Aug 2023: Engineering plant growth. Synthetic Biology is an emerging field that employs engineering principles for constructing genetic systems. The approach is based on the use of well characterised and reusable components, and numerical models for the

14 Aug 2023: http://haseloff.plantsci.cam.ac.uk (note: these pages are suitable for direct printing) Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge.

14 Aug 2023: Teaching resources for courses on plant development and biotechnology. These pages contain information for a variety of different courses on plant development and biotechnology that are provided by Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge. They

14 Aug 2023: Cross-section of the Marchantia polymorpha thallus. Photosynthetic cells are enclosed within chambers below the upper epidermal surface of the thallus. Specialised cells form an air pore to facilitate gas exchange and limit water loss. The lower

14 Aug 2023: Resources to support work with plant systems. This section of the website contains links to various local resources that we have developed. Hopefully some may be directly useful, others for survey or to trigger plant-inspired ideas. OpenPlant is a

14 Aug 2023: Outreach activities. We play a major role in promoting accessible technologies for interdisciplinary activities, bringing biologists together with engineers, physical scientists and social scientists. These activities range from student-led

14 Aug 2023: Marchantia polymorpha. The liverworts (or Marchantiophyta) are descendants of the earliest terrestrial plants. The group is characterised by morphological simplicity, and this seems to be matched by simple underlying genome structures. Liverworts

14 Aug 2023: Liverwort hunting at the XIIIth Australian Bryophyte Workshop—Flinders Ranges and Adelaide, South Australia. The workshop was held near Quorn in the Flinders Ranges, in August 2016 and was followed by identification sessions and expert workshops

14 Aug 2023: Biology will never be the same. The remarkable scientific success of biology in describing, explaining, and manipulating natural systems is so well recognized as to be a cliche—but the engineering application of that scientific knowledge is just

14 Aug 2023: Growth in soil. Marchantia polymorpha is a weed, and the plants are very easy to grow. We have experimented with a number of media and growth conditions. For very vigorous growth, we have used jiffy-7 pots, which are supplied as compressed dried peat

14 Aug 2023: Marchantia polymorpha has 9 chromosomes and a genome size of around 290MB. The dominant form is the haploid gametophyte. The plant is dioecious, with sex determined by segregating X and Y chromosomes. The Y chromosome has been sequenced recently