Cultivation of college students' innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and ability based on Synthetic Biology and iGEM.

Author: Tiantian JIAN ¹ ; Suiyan LI ¹ ; Hai LIAO ¹ ; Jiayu ZHOU ¹ ; Qiankun ZHU ¹ ; Xinhe HUANG ¹
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1. School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Synthetic Biology; iGEM; innovation and entrepreneurship; interdisciplinary
MeSH: Genetic Engineering; Humans; Students; Synthetic Biology; Universities
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2022;38(4):1619-1630
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Synthetic Biology is one of the most promising fields of modern Biology and a frontier interdisciplinary subject in the 21st century. With the rapid development of synthetic biology, the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition has emerged. The iGEM competition, based on the subject foundation of Synthetic Biology, intends to solve the biological problems in our daily life by applying modern biological technology. In recent years, with the continuous increase of participating teams, the iGEM competition has received extensive attention and achieved great progress. On the basis of the development of Synthetic Biology, we analyzed the 2018-2020 award-winning projects of the iGEM competition and illustrated the role and significance of the iGEM competition in cultivating college students' innovative thinking and ability with the participation experience of the iGEM team of Southwest Jiaotong University as an example.