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What happens when biology becomes technology? | Christina Agapakis

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A Briefcase Full of Poop Changed My Life

Alexander daisy ginsburg is a synthetic biologist. Her team created bacteria that can sense different things in their environment and produce a rainbow of different colors in response. The cambridge team went on to win the international genetical engineer machine competition, or igem for short. Daisy: "I learned that engineering isn't really just about equations and steel and circuits"

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