Bringing home the gold

Last November, 337 teams from around the world convened in Boston for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, a premiere international student team competition in Synthetic Biology. Teams are made up of high school, undergraduate, graduate, and post doc level students. Wright State students Andrea Poole and Tina Davis competed with members of the AFRL-Carrol High School (CHS) student iGEM research team. Out of the 47 high school teams the AFRL-Carroll team, who called themselves the iGEM Lab Pats, were the only ones from Ohio to take home the gold.  

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