Monthly Archives: September 2019

By Shaharyar Lakhani Earlier this year, Dr. Sanchita Bhadra and her team from the Ellington Lab at UT Austin built a kit that would make research easier to conduct in low resource areas. The kit is intended for students and …

By Shaharyar Lakhani Most plastic items are manufactured from small base substances called nurdles. Nurdles are tiny round pellets of plastic that are saturating coasts around the globe. These pellets carry toxins, and are therefore detrimental to the wildlife that …

By Shaharyar Lakhani SynCell 2020, the International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles, will be held from May 11th through May 14th, 2020 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (https://syncell2020.unm.edu). The conference will focus on the challenges and opportunities in …

By Shaharyar Lakhani On August 23rd, 2019, many notable practitioners of synthetic biology from the University of Texas at Austin got together and shared their expertise with students, researchers, and administrators, all as a part of UT Synthetic Biology Day …