BIOFAB

= International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology

URL = http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57090/

Description

"The project, called BIOFAB: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology -- or just BIOFAB for short -- aims to boost the ease of bioengineering with "biological parts" that are shared resources, standardized and reliable enough that they can be switched in and out of a genome like electronic parts in a radio. If BIOFAB's vision is realized, researchers will be able to access an online registry and simply order what they need. The project is funded by a two-year $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, as well as support from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), a nonprofit organization promoting synthetic biology."