Grand Prize, Winner of the BioBrick Trophy: Slovenia
1st Runner Up: Peking
2nd Runner Up: BCCS-Bristol
Finalists:
BCCS-Bristol
Cambridge
Imperial College London
Peking
Slovenia
TUDelft
Track Award Winners:
Best Food or Energy Project: BCCS-Bristol
Best Environment Project: Peking
Best Health or Medicine Project: Washington & Freiburg Bioware (Tie)
Best Information Processing Project: ETHZ...
No international research community, cell biology included, can exist without an educational community to renew and replenish it. Unfortunately, cell biology researchers frequently regard their work as independent of the process of education and see little reason to reach out to science teachers. For...
We would like to thank everyone who is helping us out with iGEM 2010.
Sponsors at the University of Cambridge:
The School of Biological Sciences,
Department of Genetics,
Department of Plant Sciences,
Department of Biochemistry,
Department of Physiology, Neurobiology & Development,
The School of Technology,
Department of Engineering, Division of Life Sciences,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (SynBio2010)
The University of Cambridge iGEM team and organisers...
iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience
by Mun-Keat Looi, Wellcome Trust blog, http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/igem-the-student-synthetic-biology-experience/
European teams, including Imperial and Cambridge at the 2009 iGEM jamboree finals at MIT.
Making anything work in genetic engineering is difficult in itself, but doing...
The new field of synthetic biology aims to make biology controllable, predictable and designable. Mun-Keat Looi asks if you can really engineer a biological organism and hears how a unique competition for undergraduates is helping the field gather momentum.
What if you could engineer an organism to do whatever you want: produce life-saving drugs cheaply, generate energy, or detect and clear waste from a polluted lake? And what if building that organism was like constructing a model using toy bricks or piecing together an electronic circuit? Welcome to the world of synthetic biology.
"The...