The Art of Synthetic Biology

By Ike Sriskandarajah on Monday, February 1, 2010.

This isn’t the science fair you remember… college and high school students from around the world are using synthetic biology to build novel forms of life. They traveled to MIT to compete in the unusual event known as iGEM- the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition.
Living on Earth's Ike Sriskandarajah attended the event and brought us this story.

Listen to the story on Living on Earth.

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