GENEART AG and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) announce today their collaboration during this year’s International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM). GENEART will provide 100,000 base pairs of new synthetic DNA constructs for iGEM teams at a highly subsidized rate and a cash donation to the iGEM program. During this year’s competition, hundreds of undergraduate students will build biological machines from standard, interchangeable parts and operate these machines in living cells. The Registry of Standard Biological Parts, a genetic library at MIT, will provide a kit of standardized parts for the genetic machines. The teams will make new biological parts of their own design and have them synthesized by GENEART. These new parts will then be added to the Registry for the teams in next year’s competition.
