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This blog is where we share stories, announcements, and insights from around the iGEM community.
This blog is where we share stories, announcements, and insights from around the iGEM community.
The iGEM Blog is back, and better than ever! Through the iGEM Blog, we will share stories, announcements, and insights from our community, including iGEM Headquarters, committee members, and iGEMers.
The iGEM Digest dives deeper into the most exciting news, groundbreaking advances and life-changing initiatives from iGEMers all over the world. Featuring interviews, reports, articles, and analyses, the iGEM Digest is an After iGEM initiative to connect the advances of iGEMers from pole to pole. Visit the After iGEM website to download the most recent issues, or browse articles right here on the blog!
The EPIC Journey is the official blog of the iGEM Entrepreneurship Committee. EPIC strives towards becoming the driving force behind hundreds of SynBio based start-ups globally to help accelerate our transition to a more sustainable bioeconomy. The blog highlights iGEM entrepreneurial success stories, trends and reports from the synbio startup ecosystem and follows the journeys of the companies created through EPIC’s programs.
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to education and competition, the advancement of synthetic biology, and the development of an open community and collaboration.
iGEM began in January 2003 as an independent study course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where students developed biological devices to make cells blink. This course became a summer competition with 5 teams in 2004 and continued to grow to 13 teams in 2005; it expanded to 340 teams in 2018, reaching 42 countries and over 5,000 participants.
iGEM’s biggest program is the iGEM Competition. The iGEM Competition gives students the opportunity to push the boundaries of synthetic biology by tackling everyday issues facing the world. Made up of primarily university students, multidisciplinary teams work together to design, build, test, and measure a system of their own design using interchangeable biological parts and standard molecular biology techniques. Every year nearly 6,000 people dedicate their summer to iGEM and then come together in the fall to present their work and compete at the annual Jamboree.
