Southampton, Oxford Lands $6.3M Grant for Synthetic Biology

Feb 23, 2012

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers at the University of Southampton and the University of Oxford have netted a £4 million ($6.3 million) grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to develop a new synthetic biology technology that could aid in the production of useful DNA and RNA structures.

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