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Contents 1 Science Articles 2 Education 3 Society 4 Misc

Science Articles

iGEM and the greater scientific community

• 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
  

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Education

Articles from educational institutions

• 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
  

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Society

Synthetic Biology, iGEM, and society

• 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
  

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Misc

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