Chemical Synthetic Biology - Xenobiology

Funding

Funding as of 2024.
Latest News
Cold Orthogonal Translation 2026
A psychrophilic PylRS from Methanococcoides burtonii outperforms standard systems in genetic code expansion!
Plastic-Eating Bacteria 2026
Plastic pollution is more than a waste-management problem, it is a chemical one too!
Essential Logic and Facts Behind the Expansion of the Genetic Code: A Critical Assessment 2025
Life's “operating system” is a universal genetic code. We explain why it looks this way - and how we might carefully expand it.
iGEM Teams
Lacthera (2025)

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Replase (2024)

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> UoM News Article
PLAnet Zero (2023)

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> The Manitoban
> UoM News Article
ZebraZap (2022)

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> UoM News Article
Magnetic E. coli (2014)

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> Magnetic bacteria movie at Vimeo
BIOMOD Teams
Smart B.O.B. (2019)

• Smart Biologically Optimized Battery

MultiBrane (2017)

• A membrane for degrading microplastics, antibiotics, and heavy metals

AQUA di Cutinase (2016)

• Clean water - without microplastics.

Multifunctional Nano Scaffold (2015)

• Multifunctional Nano Scaffold for Plastic Degradation