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Nature 438, 417-418 (24 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438417a; Published online 23 November 2005
Synthetic biology: Designs on life
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- Erika Check is Nature's Washington biomedical correspondent.
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Abstract
Earlier this month, students from around the world locked horns in competition. Their challenge was to build functioning devices out of biological parts. Erika Check finds out how they got on.
Even if you're thinking big, you usually have to start small. Especially, as a group of Swiss students found, when big means counting to infinity.
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