Archive for the ‘iGEM2009’ Category
Optical Cell 2 Duo lac operon: Bridging the gap between Bacteria and Yeast
Students from iGEM Harward team are using the optical communication to create a physically distributed lac operon between a bacteria and an yeast cell which normally occur within the same cell. Idea is to use the principles of synthetic biology [...]
SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology
As I mentioned in my previous posts that for next few days we are going to cover various interesting activities related to iGEM 2009 and selected student projects will be featured on the Fisheye Perspective blog. Next in our list [...]
Public perception and Synthetic Reality
If synthetic biology fulfills its promise it has potential to replace the world created by Darwinian evolution with one created by us. At least that’s what Michael Specter’s recent story published in September 28th issue of The New Yorker suggests. [...]
We essentially want to create a drug factory in your nose
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2009 Jamboree dates are coming closer and for next few days we are going to look around the wikis to learn more about what different teams are doing this year. iGEM 2009 is bigger [...]
