News About iGEM


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= 2008 = 

  O'Reilly Radar : Looking Forward to iGEM in 2008

  Science Friday : Anticipating Synthetic Biology (mp3 here)



= 2007 = 

  University of Glasgow: Student sensor sniffs out danger</li>

  Nexxus Scotland: Student sensor sniffs out danger (2)</a></li>

  Innovations Report: Student sensor sniffs out danger (3)</a></li>

  Scottish Bioinformatics Forum: Glasgow team scoop iGEM top environment prize</a></li>

  Eureka Magazine: Students invent self powered toxic sensor</a></li>

  Digital Journal: Students Invent Self-Powered Early Warning System To Detect Pollution</a></li>

 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Students Compete Internationally to Build Biological Organisms From Standard Parts</a></li>

 Slate: Students from around the world synthesize new forms of life at the iGEM Jamboree</a></li>

 NY Times: English, Algebra, Phys Ed ... and Biotech</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/17/MN4KTCC44.DTL"> San Francisco Chronicle: High school biowizards break new ground in winning competition</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071107103105.htm"> Science Daily: Students Devise Novel Way To Detect Urinary Catheter Infections</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/11/igem_winner"> Wired.com: Genetic-Engineering Competitors Create Modular DNA Dev Kit</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/143365-1.html"> Genome Technology Online: "We Think of It as the Synthetic Biology Sweatshop"</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.gizmag.com/self-powered-biosensor/8478/"> Gizmag.com:  Self-powered biosensor wins iGEM Environmental award [Glasgow]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/88371.php"> Medical News Today: Young Slovenian Synthetic Biologists Devise A Mutation Independent Defense Against HIV</a></li>

<li><a href="http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/11/16/CampusNews/Students.Win.Gold.For.Glowing.Mold-3106693.shtml"> Brown Daily Hearald: Students win gold for glowing mold</a></li>

<li><a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/11/06/4634973-sun.html"> Cnews.ca: ButaNerds pumped</a></li>

<li><a href="http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/11/16/CampusNews/Students.Win.Gold.For.Glowing.Mold-3106693.shtml"> The Brown Daily Herald: Students win gold for glowing mold</a></li>

<li><a href="http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/unarticleid_4770.html"> The University of Melbourne Voice: Bioengineering Gold: University of Melbourne students won a team Gold Medal + a category prize at iGEM 2007</a></li>

<li><a href="http://msucares.com/news/print/agnews/an07/071115.html"> Mississippi Agricultural News: MSU students excel in new scientific field</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=8821"> The University of Lethbridge: Biochemistry Researcher and iGEM Team Leader Receives Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_13-11-2007-16-30-28?newsid=21434"> Imperial College London: Going for gold – Imperial students impress judges at genetic engineering competition</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387219"> Taipei Times: National Yang Ming University students win science gold</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x29326.xml"> Davidson: Davidson's Bacterial Computer Wins Gold in Synthetic Bio Competition</a></li>

<li><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/igem-1105.html"> MIT News: Hundreds attend iGem Jamboree</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.cogito.org/Articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID=17007"> cogito.org: 2007 iGEM Jamboree</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=790414"> Marketwire: GENEART Sponsors Winning iGEM Teams</a></li>

<li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/stories_we_want_1.html"> O'Reilly Radar:  Stories we want to see in 2008: iGEM student makes Cellulosic Ethanol breakthrough...</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/11/07/news/19222.shtml"> Daily Princetonian: Cellular warriors: Team develops new approach to fighting breast cancer</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/08001515/Indian-students-win-MIT-prize.html"> Livemint.com - The Wall Street Journal: Indian students win MIT prize, strike blow for synthetic biology</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.therolladailynews.com/articles/2007/11/06/news/news04.txt"> The Rolla Daily News: UMR team to develop yeast-cell breathalyzer</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=10080"> Rice News: Students use designer virus to attack bacterial drug resistance</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=8817"> University of Alberta Express News: Alberta's ButaNerds iGEM team (w/ video!)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200708022.html"> UCSF Today: UCSF's all-highschool team</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/07120421.htm"> Science Centric:  Student sensor sniffs out danger [Glasgow]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=6118"> The Paly voice:  '07 Paly graduate finalist at MIT biotechnology competition iGEM [UCSF]</a></li> </ul> More: There is a short list of igem07-related scientific publications on the Publishing iGEM Projects page.

= 2006 =
 * Genetically Engineered Machines Competition Slashdot.org
 * Bizarre bacterial creations Technology Review
 * Genetic Jamboree draws innovators The Boston Globe
 * Slovenians engineer win in genetics competition Nature
 * Gene machine takes the prize MIT news office
 * Gene Machine: Cells Engineered To Prevent Sepsis Win Synthetic Biology Competition Science Daily
 * EU-sponsored teams scoop top prizes at iGEM jamboree EU comission directorate of science
 * Slovenian team won the Grand prize at the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition at MIT Innovations report
 * Synthetic biology success Varsity
 * The Gene Jamboree BioHackery

iGEM 2006 Team News

 * "Tag! They're it!" Inside Brown.
 * Students Craft Arsenic Water Test BBC News 11/20/06
 * Research Team Scores Big for Bio-Computer That Sorts “Burnt Pancakes” Davidson College News 11/23/06
 * Students Shine at International Competition Missouri Western Alumni Magazine 03/07
 * Simple Test Could Make World's Water Supplies Safer University of Edinburgh News & Events 20/11/06
 * Imperial Students Engineer Success at International Competition Imperial College News 11/8/06
 * Imperial pioneers new biological engineering parts Imperial College News 08/11/06
 * Weaving Barrels from DNA Technology Review 11/15/06
 * Princeton University Genetic engineering competition puts students at cusp of new science News@Princeton 07/27/06
 * Princeton University Team Competing in iGEM Princeton Packet 07/07/06
 * Science students heading to MIT St. Joseph News-Press 07/05/06
 * Students plan to devote summer to MIT synthetic biology competition Brown Daily Herald - 03/20/2006
 * Endy gives talk on DNA programming MIT News Office - 03/08/2006
 * Penn State Newsbrief on the 2005 Jamboree Penn State - 1/31/06
 * Cambridge University News Cambridge - 1/25/06
 * The Right Exposure UT Austin - 12/19/2005
 * Genetically engineered machines invade MIT MIT - 12/17/05
 * Students race bacteria in MIT competition - Penn State 12/08/05
 * Davidson Students “Ace” Presentation at MIT Synthetic Biology Competition Davidson - 11/29/05
 * Scientists engineer bacteria to create living photographs UCSF - 11/23/05
 * Teams lay BioBrick foundation for genetic engineering MIT news office - 11/08/05
 * Undergraduates spend summer creating living machines Harvard - 8/25/05
 * Students build bio-circuits Daily Princeton - 2/3/2005

Other News

 * Biology as Cultural Artifact Greenbiz
 * Davidson's Campbell Wins Award... CollegeNews.org
 * Synthetic Biology: Life 2.0 the Economist 8/31/2006
 * Organism from Scratch (in german) Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland - 08/24/06
 * MIT Scientists Ask Biologists to Imitate Engineers ExtremeNano - 06/21/06
 * Playing God in the lab Baltimore Sun - 06/18/06
 * Design for Life BBC Focus - 6/06
 * Engineering Life: Building a Fab for Biology Scientific American - 6/06
 * Design for Life BBC Focus - 6/06
 * Engineering Life: Building a Fab for Biology Scientific American - 6/06
 * Synthetic biologists try to calm fears Nature Magazine - May 25, 2006
 * Synthetic Biology: Designs on Life - Nature Magazine (synthetic biology dedicated issue) 11/24/05
 * iGEM 2005: Synthetic Biology’s Future - Bio IT World.com 11/8/2005
 * Synthetic Life Research Shows Progress—And Raises Questions - American Association for the Advancement of Science - 11/5/2005
 * Starting from scratch Nature - 11/6/04
 * Synthetic Biology:Microbes Made to Order Science Magazine - 1/9/2004


 * Architect of Life Forbes 10/2/06
 * Synthetic Biology: Life 2.0 the Economist 8/31/06
 * The Biggest DNA Ever Made Businessweek 07/13/06
 * MIT Scientists Ask Biologists to Imitate Engineers ExtremeNano - 06/21/06
 * Playing God in the lab Baltimore Sun - 06/18/06
 * Newspaper investigation highlights bioterror fears Nature 6/14/2006 doi:10.1038/
 * Blank Slate - Regenesis Forbes 4/18/06
 * The March of the Bio-Machines Advances London Press - 3/20/06
 * BiosysBio 2007 Conference UK synthetic biology conference highlighting European iGEM projects - 3/01/06
 * 7 from Penn State enter the Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition Sci/Tech newsfeed - 2/06/06
 * Live Photographs Jumping Electrons - 12/12/06
 * The Sum of the Parts Science News - 12/10/06
 * Controlling organisms with biological circuits opens up a world of possibilities and dangers San Diego Union Tribune - 12/6/05
 * The Biological Camera Seed Magazine - 11/29/05
 * Live From the Lab, a Culture Worth a Thousand Words New York Times - 11/24/05
 * The List: R&D Projects that must get done EE Times - 8/8/05
 * Life: Reinvented Wired - 1/05
 * Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology CNET news - 12/13/2004
 * Conference hones tools for synthetic bio revolution EE Times 6/21/04
 * Conference kicks off synthetic bio revolution EE TIMES - 6/15/04 *Brainy Bacteria Forbes - 09/10/01

Other iGEM-related documents
 * Synthetic bio whitepaper Berkeley Synbio Policy Group, April 15, 2006
 * ONR 2005 Naval-Industry R&D Partnership Conference, 26-29 July 2005 (PDF document) R. Rettberg powerpoint presentation
 * Synthetic Biology, Applying Engineering to Biology (PDF document) EU NEST Report EUR21796

= 2005 =