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  • [New] Five Top Citizen Science projects were approved for funding in 2025: For two years, citizens will be working together with research teams on topics ranging from health sciences, psychology, and biology to linguistics and digital media. Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • The substantial financial backing secured by Ben Lamm for Astromech indicates investor recognition that synthetic biology research will increasingly require sophisticated AI tools to advance genetic engineering capabilities and accelerate biotechnology development. www.dailycal.org
  • The Engineering + Health Institute will house research into information technologies that bring medical care to underserved communities, synthetic biology to enable customizable disease treatments, and the combination of data science and biomedical device development. UCI News
  • Some research in synthetic biology could help with the design and manufacture of novel drugs that could benefit the world. Scientific American
  • The existing Life Sciences Research Building, Biology and RNA core facilities will be upgraded with next-gen instruments and data infrastructure, and the LSRB will be expanded by approximately 20,000 square feet of wet / dry lab space, collaboration zones and shared instrumentation suites. University at Albany
  • There is far more than one could learn in a lifetime about geology, ecology, biology, and evolution from the Galapagos, partly because of where they are on the planet. NOAA Climate.gov

Last updated: 02 March 2026



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