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Links to various press articles about Synthetic Biology. Note that this is not a comprehensive list.

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• Jay Keasling: Saving The World, One Molecule At A Time Newsweek, December 20, 2008.
• Researchers Take Step Toward Synthetic Life New York Times, January 25, 2008.
• How to Make Life Esquire, November 20, 2007.
• Creating life in the laboratory BBC News, October 19, 2007.
• Countdown to a synthetic lifeform New Scientist, July 11, 2007.
• Quest to create synthetic cell brings many parts together The Reporter, May 18, 2007.
• BP announces support for Energy Biosciences Institute San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 2007.
• Genetic jamboree draws innovators Boston Globe, November 5, 2006.
• Bizarre Bacterial Creations Technology Review, November 3, 2006.
• "Would E. coli, by any other name, smell as sweet?" MedGadget, November 3, 2006.
• Life 2.0 The Economist, August 31, 2006.
• Engineering Life: Building a Fab for Biology Scientific American, June 2006. [subscription only]
  • How to Kill Synthetic Biology Scientific American, June 2006. [editorial, subscription only]
• Regenesis Forbes, April 18, 2006.
• Cheaper Malaria Drugs MIT Technology Review, April 13, 2006.
• Projekt Genesis Die Zeit, February 16, 2006.
• Why Revive A Deadly Flu Virus? NY Times Magazine, January 29, 2006.
• Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service The NY Times, January 17, 2006.
• Is This Life? Cover article, The Scientist, January 2006.
• Playing God in running shoes The Globe and Mail, December 17, 2005.
• Using Fake Plants to Halt A Real Killer Time, December 12, 2005.
• Dr. Dobbs A.I. Newsletter Synthetic biology issue, December 2005.
• Special issue on synthetic biology in Nature including the Adventures in Synthetic Biology comic
• Synthetic Biology Remakes Small Genomes Science, November 4, 2005.
• Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated The Guardian, October 6, 2005.
• Synthetic biologists face up to security issues Nature, August 2005 and How synthetic biology can avoid GMO-style conflicts correspondence in later issue
• Attempting to build from the cells up Deccan Herald, April 2005.
• From the cells up The Guardian, March 2005.
• Steal this Genome! East Bay Express, March 2005.
• Intelligent Design Berkeley Science Review, Spring 2005.
• Meeting Report: Synthetic Biology Jamboree for Undergraduates Cell Biology Education, Spring 2005.
• Computation comes to life: Someday, our most sophisticated chip fabs could be living cells Computerworld, February 2005.
• Preparing the World for Synthetic Biology Technology Review, January 2005.
• Life, Reinvented WIRED, January 2005.
• Innovation Sails Free Newsweek, November 2004.
• Synthetic biology: Starting from scratch Nature, October 2004.
• Life, The Next Generation The Scientist, October 2004.
• Synthetic Biology: The Real Thing BIO-IT World, July 2004.
• Experts worry that synthetic biology may spawn biohackers EE Times, June 2004 and Synthetic Biology May Spawn Biohackers post on Slashdot
• Conference kicks off synthetic bio revolution EE Times, June 2004.
• BioBricks to help reverse-engineer life EE Times, June 2004.
• Synthetic Life Scientific American, May 2004 and Synthetic Life In The Lab post on Slashdot
• Microbes made to order Science, January 2004.
• Digital Cells: Computer circuits made of genes may soon program bacteria Science News, April 2003 and Digital DNA circuits post on Slashdot with link to BioBricks.
• Class aims to engineer blinking life in the lab MIT News, February 2003.

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