Daniel Barkowitz | May 01, 2008
"Minty E. Coli"
So, I am a big fan of NPR, although these days I listen to everything by podcast rather than live. I was catching up on my stories from this week, and when I was listening to the "Story of the Day" podcast I got a shock. The program was all about biological engineering at MIT and talked about a particularly interesting innovention developed by some MIT students in course 20.
A video of the team's IGEM presentation can be found here (warning, the sound and the image are off sync!).
The pdf of the team's presentation is here.
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Yup. This was the subject of a 20.020 lecture. I believe it was from the GEMS competition.
At the time, I didn't really know how bad E. coli smelled in mass bunches. Now that I've done way more experimentation with them...it's yeah...bad. haha.
(although my research adviser says she thinks it smells pretty decent. I think she's just numb now to the smell =p)
Posted by: Oasis '11 on May 1, 2008 08:21 PM
Like Chris said, I have class with these students! Awesome!
Posted by: Paul on May 1, 2008 09:00 PM
zomg, now you're making it even harder for me to decide between course 20 and 16. grrr. Too much awesomeness. ^.^ you guys rock!
Posted by: job'12 on May 1, 2008 09:49 PM
So my mom heard the live broadcast of this today while she was in the car and is now officially ok with my going to MIT.
Such a cool story, though. Pure awesomeness.
Posted by: Shannon '12 on May 1, 2008 11:30 PM
