This blog is where we share stories, announcements, and insights from around the iGEM community.
As a young, confused, and gay teenage boy living in the Danish countryside, I had very few role models: people I could relate to and people who were like me.
If you have been following iGEM for a while, you’ve probably already heard about Ginkgo Bioworks,…
An Interview with David Lloyd to hear about his iGEM experience and how an iGEM project led him and his teammates to found FREDsense Technologies.
A synthetic biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer, he currently serves at the Director of MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative (CBI) which explores the interface between Biotechnology and Community.
Have you ever dreamed of going to space? Wondered what is it like to be in a zero gravity environment? Last summer, students from 4 universities across Canada were selected for an experience of a lifetime. They were chosen to design an experiment to test in zero gravity.
A conversation with Tom Knight on his Synthetic Biology journey at MIT, iGEM and Ginkgo Bioworks
MathWorks has been the oldest partners of the iGEM Competition and has enabled iGEM teams to learn and apply modeling techniques in their projects.
How winning the Grand Prize in 2017 led the SynORI team to scale synthetic biology to national level in Lithuania
An ode to the journey of Synthetic Biology in the region and how participating in the iGEM Competition inspired a generation of students to learn, develop and apply disruptive technologies for their people.
