First year for the Policy and Practices track! Congrats to all the team competing in iGEM; we saw some amazing work 🙂
Learn about the opportunity to participate in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Policy and Practices New Track Competition of Synthetic Biology at http://2014.igem.org/Tracks/Policy_Practices ! What is iGEM? http://vimeo.com/44891358 Teams will propose innovative ways of thinking about the ethical, legal, social, economic, biosafety, environmental or biosecurity landscape of synthetic biology. Share the flyer !>> iGEM_P&P_track_flyer_Feb2014
Biosecurity for the Age of Redesigned Life (Science Friday) Forget dissecting frogs and building potato batteries. High school students today are learning genetic engineering–and some are even redesigning life. Bioethicists and the FBI have taken note and are rethinking biosecurity for the synthetic biology revolution. GO LISTEN! http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/11/08/2013/biosecurity-for-the-age-of-redesigned-life.html
The iGEM team was invited by the FBI to present their work to 30 representatives of 15 government agencies. And we visited the FBI headquarters!
The team of students I am advising for iGEM 2010, VT-ENSIMAG biosecurity, is featured in this press release. They are working on implementing and characterizing the federal guidance on synthetic genomics and on building a corresponding software called GenoTHREAT. Learn more in BioTechniques and on Genomeweb.