Monthly Archives: July 2019

Join us on August 23 for UT Synthetic Biology Day!

Synthetic biology is a powerful discipline that combines the scientific insights of biology with the translational strengths of engineering to produce new and useful biological systems. The University of Texas at Austin has a number of extraordinary practitioners of this …

Ellington Receives Research Foundation’s STAR Award

On July 12, 2019, Dr. Ellington received the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s (RCSA) STAR award for his work on entrepreneurial education. In partnership with Dr. Sarah Eichhorn and the Texas Institute for Discovery Education, Dr. Ellington has helped to …

Speeding Up Evolution using Artificial Intelligence

By Shaharyar Lakhani An artificial neural network, a computer system modeled on the human neural system, allows a computer to figure out what constitutes a particular subject on its own. A research team in the Ellington Lab at the University …

A New Biological and Financial Ecosystem for Plastic

By Shaharyar Lakhani Plastics have been in popular use for only around 50 years, yet they have managed to saturate the planet. The toxic pollutants in plastics, combined with the long time they take to degrade, have adversely affected land, …