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We are a group of undergraduate students studying life science with professors as mentors at Stockholm University. This is our website about our work and effort in representing our school as Team Stockholm at the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition against other teams from all over the world.

iGEM is an internationell reseach competition focused on synthetic biology. Each team is given a kit containing biological parts for practical work, which takes place at each teams own school. The use of these biological parts together with self designed parts, will lay the ground for us to build innovative and useful new biological systems and operate them in living cells.

This competition opens up for students to think “out of the box” when engineering living organisms to be applied as tools when solving problems in healthcare, bioenergy, chemical and material production and environmental contaminations to name a few.

The principles in the field of synthetic biology is to combine science and engineering in order to genetically design and build living cells with novel biological roles and systems aimed at overcoming the obstacles in modern life.

Stay tuned for daily updates in the run up to the finals at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)!