Animal Insting

This image, Mario, was submitted to the 2009 international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition by Team Osaka from the nanobiology laboratories at the University of Osaka, Japan.


They genetically engineered bacteria to express fluorescent proteins and carotenoid pigments to create works of art.


At the start of summer, the teams competing in iGEM are issued with a set of standard biological parts called BioBricks. They use these and their own bricks to invent new biological machines.