Genetic-Engineering Competitors Create Modular DNA Dev Kit

November 14, 2007

College and high school students are helping MIT scientists develop an open source development kit for biological systems that could do for cells what Linux has done for computers. As part of the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last week, Peking University students created tiny assembly lines out of bacteria. Their entry, “Towards a Self-Differentiated Bacterial Assembly Line,” won them the grand prize among 50 teams from around the world. (Wired News)