Friday, November 27, 2009

Designer Genes

Dreams of creating new forms of life are moving from scientists' labs to artist and designers' studios.

A competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, encourages the students to build novel forms of life from biological parts... Including one group of design students who got their hands wet in the world of synthetic biology by trying to create a bacteria that smells like the first rain of a monsoon.


Audio: PRI's Living On Earth, Host: Jeff Young. Reporter: Ike Sriskandarajah.

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