Today an interview by John Cumbers with Dr. Reshma Shetty, co-founder of Gingko Bioworks, was published by Forbes. In the interview, Dr. Shetty shares her perspective about her co-founders, some of their experiences in the company early days and powerful insights about the future of the field. Take ...

Hello everybody! Last week I was talking about iGEM with some undergrad students that are still unfamiliar with the competition and they asked me about startups created by iGEM alumni in our region. I mentioned Lothan in Brazil (crated by Otto and Danilo) and Scintia in Mexico (Ricardo and Minerva) ...

Recently, it was reported that Hiromitsu Nakauchi, a Japanese stem-cell scientist, received government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3 In the long run, the advances in the field c...

iGEMers develop hundreds of state-of-art projects every year. It is natural that some of those outstanding ideas become peer-reviewed articles. A great example is the Uppsala Chromoprotein Collection , a library originally developed by 2011 Uppsala iGEM Team , that received further contributions fro...

Dear fellow inhabitants of this wonderful region of the world called Latin America, a.k.a. URSAL. My name is Guilherme, I was the Brazilian iGEM Ambassador in 2017 and during this season I coordinated the Ambassador Program. As an Ambassador, I visited dozens of cities in my homeland, promoting not ...