The International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition is no longer just for students. The organisers, apparently, have opened up the contest to teams that could include home biohackers, something that DIYbio enthusiast Mackenzie Cowell has been pushing at for some time.
According to his latest post at the DIYbio blog, iGEM will run a non-institutional team division. A team can register for $500 and will have access to partner deals, such as cheap DNA synthesis from Geneart and access to the Matlab synthetic-biology toolkit, as well as parts from the BioBrick Foundation's registry of genes.
