An iGEM of an idea

How to get students to go into science.

Early last month, associate editor Alla Katsnelson traveled to a remarkable event at MIT. She watched as 59 teams of undergraduates from around the world spent two days using the tools of synthetic biology to build impressive machines. (See Alla's blogs on the subject here.) They were there to take part in a jamboree that marks the culmination of iGEM, the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition.


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