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Latest revision as of 23:54, 1 November 2017
Computer games + the central dogma - what could go wrong?
We designed a computer game and built our own dance pad, which was featured at the high-profile London Science Museum’s Lates Series event. 2000 visitors transcribed DNA to mRNA through dance and played an arcade game to achieve translation of proteins. The goal was to teach people about the processes behind how in Barchitecture we can get from cells to cities. Here is the code on Github.
How 17-year olds want to make mules fertile
We facilitated discussion about the consequences of modifying organisms in synthetic biology with adolescents at the UCL Sutton Trust Biosciences Summer School. The session introduced synthetic biology, our biological light switches and their applications. The aim was to have students consider synthetic biology as a system, where changing one component will affect the others.
Smart Dinner
Alex from EatOffTheMenu gets people together to talk about philosophy, the latest dumb thing presidents may have said or fashion. We pitched the idea of trying to get people from different backgrounds more comfortable talking about genetically engineering organisms.