News About iGEM
From 2008.igem.org
- Check out the Press Kit
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
- Nexxus Scotland: Student sensor sniffs out danger (2)
- Innovations Report: Student sensor sniffs out danger (3)
- Scottish Bioinformatics Forum: Glasgow team scoop iGEM top environment prize
- Eureka Magazine: Students invent self powered toxic sensor
- Digital Journal: Students Invent Self-Powered Early Warning System To Detect Pollution
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Students Compete Internationally to Build Biological Organisms From Standard Parts
- Slate: Students from around the world synthesize new forms of life at the iGEM Jamboree
- NY Times: English, Algebra, Phys Ed ... and Biotech
- San Francisco Chronicle: High school biowizards break new ground in winning competition
- Science Daily: Students Devise Novel Way To Detect Urinary Catheter Infections
- Wired.com: Genetic-Engineering Competitors Create Modular DNA Dev Kit
- Genome Technology Online: "We Think of It as the Synthetic Biology Sweatshop"
- Gizmag.com: Self-powered biosensor wins iGEM Environmental award [Glasgow]
- Medical News Today: Young Slovenian Synthetic Biologists Devise A Mutation Independent Defense Against HIV
- Brown Daily Hearald: Students win gold for glowing mold
- Cnews.ca: ButaNerds pumped
- The Brown Daily Herald: Students win gold for glowing mold
- The University of Melbourne Voice: Bioengineering Gold: University of Melbourne students won a team Gold Medal + a category prize at iGEM 2007
- Mississippi Agricultural News: MSU students excel in new scientific field
- The University of Lethbridge: Biochemistry Researcher and iGEM Team Leader Receives Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award
- Imperial College London: Going for gold – Imperial students impress judges at genetic engineering competition
- Taipei Times: National Yang Ming University students win science gold
- Davidson: Davidson's Bacterial Computer Wins Gold in Synthetic Bio Competition
- MIT News: Hundreds attend iGem Jamboree
- cogito.org: 2007 iGEM Jamboree
- Marketwire: GENEART Sponsors Winning iGEM Teams
- O'Reilly Radar: Stories we want to see in 2008: iGEM student makes Cellulosic Ethanol breakthrough...
- Daily Princetonian: Cellular warriors: Team develops new approach to fighting breast cancer
- Livemint.com - The Wall Street Journal: Indian students win MIT prize, strike blow for synthetic biology
- The Rolla Daily News: UMR team to develop yeast-cell breathalyzer
- Rice News: Students use designer virus to attack bacterial drug resistance
- University of Alberta Express News: Alberta's ButaNerds iGEM team (w/ video!)
- UCSF Today: UCSF's all-highschool team
- Science Centric: Student sensor sniffs out danger [Glasgow]
- The Paly voice: '07 Paly graduate finalist at MIT biotechnology competition iGEM [UCSF]
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 TestBBC 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 CompetitionMissouri Western Alumni Magazine 03/07
- Simple Test Could Make World's Water Supplies SaferUniversity of Edinburgh News & Events 20/11/06
- Imperial Students Engineer Success at International CompetitionImperial 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 scienceNews@Princeton 07/27/06
- Princeton University Team Competing in iGEMPrinceton Packet 07/07/06
- Science students heading to MITSt. Joseph News-Press 07/05/06
- Students plan to devote summer to MIT synthetic biology competitionBrown Daily Herald - 03/20/2006
- Endy gives talk on DNA programmingMIT 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 MadeBusinessweek 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 fearsNature 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 dangersSan 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