Students Build Biological Machines

Author: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

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Digital Audiobook

Duration
00:08.40

Published: 30th December 2008

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Scientists in the growing field of synthetic biology use basic biological "building blocks" -- snippets of DNA -- to engineer useful living organisms, like bacteria that can break down plastic. Tom Bearden reports on a do-it-yourself biology competition for college students.