What does that mean for the future of the biotech industry?
Inside a cavernous convention hall in Paris in late October, thousands of students gathered for the latest biotechnology Olympics. The event, called the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), is unknown to most yet revered in the brainy world of synthetic biology. Each year, more than 5,000 participants from high schools and universities around the world spend the summer mulling biological problems and how they might be solved through bioengineering. They then descend on P