Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid)
@vdlorenzo.bsky.social
Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/
What synthetic biologists do with DNA is a joke compared to what bacteria can handle in terms of moving sequences from here to there. rDNA technology is but a minor recreation in the lab of what microorganisms can achieve 'naturally' 🤔
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What synthetic biologists do with DNA is a joke compared to what bacteria can handle in terms of moving sequences from here to there. rDNA technology is but a minor recreation in the lab of what microorganisms can achieve 'naturally' 🤔
Very sorry to hear that. He was one of the earliest enthusiastic promoters of Synthetic Biology & of using Mycoplasma as a minimal cell model, his association with JCVI was a legend in the field. RIP
October 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Very sorry to hear that. He was one of the earliest enthusiastic promoters of Synthetic Biology & of using Mycoplasma as a minimal cell model, his association with JCVI was a legend in the field. RIP
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Storm over science: predatory practices and the fight for research reliability
Abstract. Scientific publishing faces a credibility crisis driven to a very large extent by predatory journals, paper mills, and exploitative open-access (
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October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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