Building new life forms at the iGEM Jamboree

*I hope these bio-geek Brits are this perky about it when the Martian terraforming bacteria escape and red goo eats the Earth.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-11/09/building-new-life-forms-at-the-igem-jamboree.aspx

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"I walked into the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Jamboree, equipped with an aluminium briefcase full of multi-coloured poo. I was with fellow designer James King and the Cambridge University iGEM team: seven rainbow-haired undergraduates who s...