Building with Biology Blog

What would Benjamin Franklin think about synthetic biology? I’d like to think that our favorite scientist and inventor would have loved the thoughtful conversations that took place throughout the day as visitors and scientist volunteers considered the applications of this emerging science. With synthetic biology as a new area of focus for us, we were able to establish a new partnership and leverage existing ones for our July 9th Building with Biology event.

FBI Special Agent Joshua Canter, who is the Hazardous Evidence Response Team leader for the FBI’s Boston office, presents to guests of the Building with Biology event at the Museum of Science.

The Museum of Science in Boston hosted its Building with Biology event on Sunday, June 26, with the hands-on activities from the kit, a few hands-on activities from the pilot year, a graffiti board, passports and tattoos, guest speakers, iGEM team presenters, and a table for a local synthetic biology company. That evening, we held the “Should We Engineer the Mosquito?” forum.