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Registry Upgrade This Weekend

The new wiki version of the Registry software will be released this Saturday, June 3rd and perhaps Sunday, June 4th. During this period, the Registry will not be available for use. Check back here to see when the release is completed. - Randy

News from the Registry

DNA Distribution Plates for iGEM 2006 have been sent out! See the Biobrick Delivery page for more details on what to do with the plates once you have received them.

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Upcoming Events

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• The date for the Teach the Teachers EU workshop will be June 12, 2006. See the Teach the Teachers EU page for the latest information.

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Recent News

News reports on iGEM and synbio from the greater scientific community and beyond...

• [http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000E491E-B2F9-146C-B2F983414B7F0000 Engineering Life: Building a Fab for Biology] Scientific American - 6/06
  
• [http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v2/n1/pdf/msb4100073.pdf Journal Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline. (Review Article)]Mol. Syst. Biol. doi:10.1038/msb4100073
• [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16680139&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum RNA synthetic biology]Nature Biotechnology - 05/25/06
• [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1126439v1 Emergent Properties of Reduced-Genome Escherichia coli]Science express - 04/27/06
  

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iGEM Program Sponsorship

iGEM is an initiative of the MIT [http://icampus.mit.edu/ iCampus] program, which is funded by Microsoft Corp. iCampus sponsors faculty innovations in educational technology, helps incubate them through classroom use, and promotes their adoption, evaluation and continued evolution through worldwide multi-institutional cooperation.