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iGEM started with a question:


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Can simple biological systems be built from standard, interchangeable parts and operated in living cells?
...Or is biology simply too complicated to be engineered in this way?

The only way to answer the question is to test whether it can be done practically. The iGEM competition facilitates this providing a library of standardized parts (we call them BioBricks, and we organize them in a [http://partsregistry.org Registry]) to students, and asking them to design and build genetic machines with them.

Our broader goals are:

  • To enable the systematic engineering of biology;
  • To promote the open and transparent development of tools for engineering biology; and
  • To help construct a society that can productively apply biological technology
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