The US has been behind both China and Europe in iGEM for the last 15 years It was the canary in the coal mine of the US losing biotech leadership The best time for US universities, biotech execs, and policymakers to care about iGEM was 15 years ago. The second best time is now

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Proud to announce that Ginkgo Bioworks was awarded a $47M contract to kick off President Trump's new Genesis Mission and build the world's largest autonomous lab at Pacific Northwest National Lab! I was honored to join Secretary Chris Wright as he commissioned the first phase of the lab

We’re addicted to cement. So we engineered the microbe that can grow a different kind of it. Sporosarcina pasteurii makes biocement — studied everywhere but engineered nowhere. No plasmids. No knockouts. No genetics. Until now.

10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025 Scientific truths exist independently of public opinion. But when we disbelieve them, we embrace misinformation instead, and that harms more than most of us realize. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…