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All tagged Design League
We were invited to the Grand Jamboree by the iGEM Design League, who hosted our presentations. We discussed how synthetic biology has made our achievements possible. Sean's presentation, titled "Transforming Medicine Through Synthetic Biology: A Look at the Future of Synthetic Biology," discussed Synlogic's approach to producing our drugs and how our team applies genetic engineering to probiotics that are already well-understood (or well-characterized) by scientists.
We asked iGEMers in different places around the world about the challenges they are facing when it comes to building their local synthetic biology ecosystems and advancing the engineering progress of biology. We learned that specific challenges vary not just between global regions, but between countries and localities as well. In keeping with iGEM’s new purpose of making sure that the field of synthetic biology, and all of the power that this technology holds, gets developed everywhere by everyone, we are developing the iGEM Leagues.
Now more than ever the world needs synthetic biologists – talented and passionate people who are building a better world by engineering biology. iGEM is known by most as the premier international synthetic biology competition, and the organization that helped to establish the synthetic biology industry. But in 2022, iGEM has grown to be so much more than just the competition.
Can you imagine how the future would look if local people solved local problems everywhere in the world? To envision such a future, 25 teams from 8 Latin-American countries, comprising 480 students, took on the challenge of applying biological design to solve local problems in iGEM Design League 2021.
Você pode imaginar como seria o futuro se a população local resolvesse os problemas locais em todo o mundo? Para vislumbrar esse futuro, 25 equipes de 8 países latino-americanos, compreendendo 480 alunos, assumiram o desafio de aplicar o design biológico para resolver problemas locais na iGEM Design League 2021.
¿Te imaginas cómo sería el futuro si personas locales resolvieran problemas locales en todo el mundo? Para vislumbrar ese futuro, 25 equipos de 8 países latinoamericanos, compuestos por 480 estudiantes, asumieron el desafío de aplicar el diseño biológico para resolver problemas locales en iGEM Design League 2021.
iGEM Design League was launched in Latin America this year to kickstart the journeys of Latinos and Latinas in synthetic biology. This new competition is focused on the design element of the "design-build-test-learn" cycle that helps ideas to become reality, all while engaging local people in solving local problems through synthetic biology.
