Paige Rudin

11 weeks. 77 days. 1,848 hours. 110,880 minutes. 6,652,800 seconds. While not all spent in lab, these numbers represent the time of a summer spent learning, exploring, and discovering. At the concl...

Taken from Greek and Latin roots, "phosphorus" literally means "light-bringing," "morning star," or "torchbearer." Phosphorus is a highly reactive element with a reddish or white color that occurs ...

Synthetic Biology & iGEM TermsAre some of the procedures we discuss unfamiliar? Wish you knew more about synthetic biology and iGEM? Look no further than this document, which includes some comm...

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Breaking news: this past week, Florida governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in several counties due to a toxic algal bloom. This is exactly the problem Purdue iGEM is working to solve!...

An ideal implementation of our genetic device is within a microbial fuel cell (MFC), which is a unit that generates energy by processing wastewater. This energy can then be used for the desalinatio...

What is synthetic biology? At its most basic, synthetic biology can be defined as the intersection of life and technology. It is engineering, biology, creativity, and innovation all rolled into one...