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| | <h2>Please visit the BioBricks Foundation's new website at http://biobricks.org.</h2> |
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| '''The BioBricks Foundation (BBF)''' is a not-for-profit organization founded by engineers and scientists from MIT, Harvard, and UCSF with significant experience in both non-profit and commercial biotechnology research. BBF encourages the development and responsible use of technologies based on BioBrick™ standard DNA parts that encode basic biological functions...
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| [[Image:biobricks-trademark.gif|right]]Using BioBrick™ standard biological parts, a synthetic biologist or biological engineer can already, to some extent, program living organisms in the same way a computer scientist can program a computer. The DNA sequence information and other characteristics of BioBrick™ standard biological parts are made available to the public free of charge currently via MIT's [http://partsregistry.org Registry of Standard Biological Parts].
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| Any individual or organization is welcome to design, improve, and contribute BioBrick™ standard biological parts to the Registry. For example, in the summer of 2007, over 600 students and instructors at 60+ universities around the world are making, sharing, and using BioBrick™ standard biological parts as part of the [http://igem.org International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)] competition.
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| The BBF supports an open technical standards setting process that is used to define BioBrick™ standard biological parts, and other technical matters relevant to synthetic biology research and applications. Feel free to join or contribute to the work of the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/The_BioBricks_Foundation:Standards/Technical BBF Technical Standards Working Group] if you are interested.
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| The BBF also supports a Legal Working Group that is developing the BioBricks™ Legal scheme. Feel free to join or contribute to the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/The_BioBricks_Foundation:Legal BBF Legal Working Group] if you are interested.
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| '''News'''<br>
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| *The '''[[The_BioBricks_Foundation:BPA | BioBrick™ Public Agreement]]''' Version 1a is now available for public distribution and comment. Your final feedback is requested.
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| *The BBF helps start the [http://www.biofab.org/ BIOFAB] International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB).
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| *'''[http://ginkgobioworks.com/ Ginkgo BioWorks] and [http://neb.com New England Biolabs] have developed and are selling their first [http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productE0546.asp BioBrick™ Assembly Kit]!
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| *'''The [[The BioBricks Foundation:RFC|BBF RFC process]] has been implemented.''' Request an RFC number from rfc AT biobricks.org.
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| *'''Technical Standards Workshop 3''', [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Workshop3 | November 10, 2008, Cambridge, MA]]
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| *'''Technical Standards, Legal, SB5.0, and Volunteer Mailing Lists are open, [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:MailingLists | sign up today]]!
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| *'''Technical & Legal Standards Workshop 2''', [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Workshop2 | March 1, 2008, San Francisco, CA]]
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| *'''[http://sb4.biobricks.org/ SB4.0, Fourth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology,] 10-12 October 2008, HKUST, Hong Kong
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| *'''Technical & Legal Standards Workshop''', [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Workshop | November 5-6, 2007, Cambridge, MA]]
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| *'''Funding''': [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:PressRelease | Somekh Family Foundation makes generous donation]]
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| *'''Membership''': [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Membership | Become a member of the BBF today!]]
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| *'''Volunteer''': [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Volunteer | Help with the work of the BBF!]]
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| *'''Donate''': [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Donations | Support the work of the BBF!]]
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| *'''Notes''': [[The_BioBricks_Foundation:Standards | Wiki notes about the BBF Standards discussions]]
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