Jon Mooalem has a VERY well written story on synthetic biology and iGem in this week’s New York Times Magazine, focusing on the underdog team from City College of San Francisco. (Mooalem also had a great segment on This American Life recently, about the self-storage industry.) Mooalem explains the science reasonably and concisely, and definitely captures the zetigeisty appeal of synthetic bio right now.
Team Cambridge attracts an audience at iGem 2009
If you’re new to this space, and interested in learning more about synthetic biology — think of it as genetic engineering 2.0 — you can search through a year or so’s worth of blog posts here. And definitely check out the terrific Oscillator blog, written by Harvard grad student Christina Agapakis, who also gets a mention in Mooalem’s article.
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