Cooperation with Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN in progress

GENES AND MACHINES

Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers PWN) has been the largest Polish publishing house specializing in science publishing books for over 60 years. It is well-know among tremendous numbers of Polish students thanks to its handbooks. Because we have found out that there is no elementary easy-to-read for high school students book about synthetic biology we decided to create one. The book “Geny I Maszyny “ (Genes and Machines) consists of 13 units presenting all the bases such as systems biology, bioinformatics, biosafety, applications or Do It Yourself Biology. In September the e-book was distributed in high schools all over the country thanks to Wydawnitwo Naukowe PWN and soon it will be available on our synthetic biology hub powered by Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN too. We aimed at the Polish audience as we think that spreading information regarding the new possibilities brought about by synthetic biology should start on a local level.

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY-HUB

Launched during the last week of September, the Synthetic Biology Hub is a space that we would like to devote to the latest synthetic biology applications and emerging technologies. Just like the e-book it is designed to help Polish students in their exploration of the SynBio world, even if they are not fluent in English. We aimed to create a Polish source of basic information available for people not involved in Life Science. As the e-book is intended as a handbook, the hub will provide short communications for light reading during lunchtime as well as some amusing content. The project is going to be continued throughout the next year, with weekly updates from various authors.

You can find it [http://web3.hostigo.pl/ here] (because we are still working on the SEO settings, it may be for the time being, non-indexed by search engines).