Building with Biology Blog

As we shared in an update to the Building with Biology project last fall, the Museum of Science received supplemental funding from NSF to create an additional forum that will allow informal science education institutions to engage their visitors about the societal and ethical dimensions of human gene editing technologies.

Building with Biology project receives supplemental funding from the NSF to develop dialogue program about human genome editing

Synthetic or real vanilla—which tastes better? Guests at the Joseph Moore Museum’s, a community museum at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, Building with Biology event had the opportunity to taste and decide for themselves while learning about bioengineered food. More opportunities to explore and discuss synthetic biology awaited inside the museum where students and faculty set out to engage public and scientists in questions of bioengineering.