It may have taken God four days to create life, but bio-scientists working on an artificial cell estimate they’ll need another five to 10 years. They gathered for the first time at the BaSyC conference in Delft, 28-29 August 2018.
Synthetic Biology Professor Drew Endy from Stanford University was one of the over hundred participants of the first Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyC) conference that took place at TU Delft 27-29 August 2018.
After eight extraordinary productive years, Cees Dekker will transfer the Directorship of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (KIND) to his younger colleague Chirlmin Joo. Who is Dr Joo?
Should student societies be more open to international students? The first year students we asked were pretty unanimous in their answer.
“Technical students develop technical solutions. But our policy analysis students test whether these solutions can effectively achieve policy goals,” says Bert Enserink, Director of the Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA) master. The first batch of 23 students graduated in The Hague last Tuesday.
It was a world’s first when the Forze hydrogen car reached the finish of an official 60-minute car race during the Super Challenge last Saturday. Forze finished sixth as the only hydrogen car among petrol guzzlers.
Het bezwijken van de Morandibrug kan een zegen zijn, vindt hoogleraar draagconstructie prof.ir. Rob Nijsse, als de politiek zich eindelijk realiseert dat goedkope bouw duur kan uitpakken. “Er moet meer geluisterd worden naar ingenieurs.”
Bruggenexpert dr.ir. Cor van der Veen kan uitleggen hoe de Morandibrug bij Genua is ingestort. ‘Destijds was er niks mis met het ontwerp. Nu zouden we het anders doen.’
She may have needed crutches and been surrounded by catchers, but paraplegic Sjaan Quirijns walked. She was wearing robotic trousers, built by the student team MARCH III over
