Students Build Biological Machines
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
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.
Duration: 9 minutes (00:08:39) Publishing date: 2008-12-30; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —