vrykolaka - Slashdot User

Comment Hurrah Slovenia! (Score 1) 38

by vrykolaka on Thursday November 09, 2006 @06:51AM (#16782565) Attached to: Genetically Engineered Machines Competition

For those who dont know, Slovenia is the northernmost part of Ex-Yugoslavia, and Thomas Jefferson got inspiration from the rules of old Slovenia (Caranthania) when writing the Constitution.

Another Slovene team recently created a nanoparticles detector for Europes NanoSafe2 (French link).

Back to topic: Slovenes are very hard-working but tend to depreciate themselves. Don't judge a book by the cover.

Genetically Engineered Machines Competition 38

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 06, 2006 @03:33PM from the birth-of-synthetic-biology dept.

aqkiva writes, "This past weekend, 33 schools from around the world gathered at MIT for the international genetically engineered machine competition. Teams consisting of mostly undergraduates had designed, built, tested, and characterized biological parts, devices, and systems over the course of the summer and came together to present their work. The competition is helping push the field of synthetic biology and opening access to the tools to engineer biological systems by providing standard biological components. The team from Slovenia won first prize overall for their engineering of mammalian systems and won the 'BioBrick,' a large metal Lego brick. The MIT team won the top prize for the best system with their engineering of bacteria that smell like wintergreen and banana. For news coverage of this weekend's jamboree, see the Boston Globe and Technology Review."

An Alternate Human 450

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 20, 2006 @11:47AM from the better-than-the-original dept.

B0b Barker writes "What has six limbs, a prehensile tail, its brain in its chest, and reproductive organs in its mouth? The alternate human designed by biologist PZ Myers in Remaking Humanity, a story in Forbes.com's package on Reinvention. It may sound fantastic, but researchers are already working to re-build DNA, proteins and cells in a new field called synthetic biology, and we may have to meet these bug-eyed freaks sometime in our lifetime."

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