http://blog.openwetware.org/igem the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition blog Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:51:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click to Play Teams at the iGEM 2007 Jamboree talk about how they got started and where they are going. http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2008/03/06/jam07-beginnings-and-beyond/ Click to Play Teams at the iGEM 2007 Jamboree talk about some of the pitfalls they ran into and how they overcame them. http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2008/03/06/jam07-from-challenge-to-triumph/ Click to Play Alja Oblak describes her experience at iGEM 2006. She presented her team's work at the competition, which won the overall grand prize. http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2008/03/06/interview-with-alja-oblak-from-the-igem06-ljubljana-team/ Click to Play The Brown iGEM 2007 team produced an excellent 4 minute introduction to Synthetic Biology and iGEM. http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2008/03/06/brown-igem07-team-introduction-to-igem/ Click to Play iGEM 2007 participants talk about the potential of synthetic biology at the 2007 Jamboree http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2008/03/06/jam07-what-can-synthetic-biology-do-for-you/ Click to Play The project we selected was to design and build a biomechanical printer; composed of a two dimensional plotter equipped with a red laser, software to translate computer images into instructions for the plotter, and E. coli cells engineered to respond to the laser light. Bacteria are spread in ... http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2007/11/15/jam07-calgary-developing-a-genetic-printer/ Click to Play Our project attacks the following problem: can one engineer viruses to selectively kill or modify specific subpopulations of target cells, based on their RNA or protein expression profiles? This addresses an important issue in gene therapy, where viruses engineered for fine target discrimination would selectively kill only those ... http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2007/11/15/jam07-caltech-selection-for-infection/ Click to Play Training E.coli: "All E.coli 's are equal, but some E.coli 's are more equal than others..." (freely adapted from "Animal Farm" by George Orwell) ... this is what George Orwell would have written, were he a synthetic biologist. In the E.coli colonies on petri dishes, all bacteria are ... http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2007/11/15/jam07-eth-zurich-educateth-ecoli-system/ Welcome to Blog.openwetware.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://blog.openwetware.org/igem/2007/11/01/hello-world/