We are looking for volunteers to help us make the 2019 Giant Jamboree a great event! Help us ensure that every attendee has an amazing experience. The first round of applications is open through August 30,and notifications will be sent by September 9. This opportunity is open to AlumniGEM and other non-team members only. This opportunity is not available to current team members or their affiliates. For the application and more details, visit the Volunteers page. Please email Kitwa if you have any questions.

Are you a STEM enthusiast? Are you interested in learning more about the emerging field of synthetic biology in Egypt? Join us in the first ever Egyptian iGEM Bootcamp.

 

Registration is now open for the BioRoboost  Roundtable on Biosafety and DIY Biology organized by BioRoboost and Ghent University, Belgium.

A Japanese scientist plans to insert human cells into rat embryos (pictured). Credit: Science Pictures ltd/SPL
 

Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California, plans to slowly proceed in growing human cells in mouse and rat embryos. Nakauchi, will not attempt to bring any hybrid embryos to term. The Nakauchi research team is hopeful that they will be able to develop a strategy of targeted organ growth. 
 

"It is necessary that all iGEMer raise this issue to our politicians to prevent our science from being over regulated and with this stop innovation and research mainly in underdeveloped or developing countries where you are regulating are more severe."