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2014

Biocontainment: a novel approach

Bronze MedalEnvironment
Team size
25 members
Track
Environment
Section
Overgraduate
Competed as
Toronto

Full writeup

The 2014 wiki

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02What happened

The year

Any engineered organism intended for release needs a way to fail safely outside its intended setting. The team proposed a biocontainment strategy to prevent engineered E. coli from persisting in the wild. Bronze medal.

03Results

Awards

A bronze medal, with no special prizes recorded.

04Gallery

Photographs

Nothing from this year has been recovered yet. If you have photographs — lab work, the Jamboree, outreach, socials — they belong in the Gallery.