Synthetic Biology Center at MIT
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Synthetic Biology Educational Links

BioBuilder

BioBuilder

BioBuilder is a resource for hands-on activities and informative animations on synthetic biology, and a place to discuss the challenge of engineering biological systems.
[About BioBuilder Youtube video]

iGEM

iGEM

The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells.

openwetware

OpenWetWare

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. Here is a sampling of the resources for synthetic biology teaching and learning on OpenWetWare:
[BioBuilding: Synthetic Biology for Students]
[BioBuilding: Synthetic Biology for Teachers]
[Introduction to Biological Engineering Design]
[Laboratory Fundamentals of Biological Engineering]