The International Genetically Engineered Machines (IGEM) Competition, which aims at bringing people from all over the world together to identify problems specific to their environment, country or continent and using synthetic biology to solve these problems came to a successful end last week. And for the first time Ghana participated, we made mother Africa proud. The team from Ashesi University who represented Ghana and West Africa as a whole, picked the overall award, 'The Chairman's Award' and came second place for the 'Overgrad students' award. The grand prize awards were in three sections - the Overgrad students, Undergrad and High School. For the over grad section, of which Ghana came second in this section, the grand prize winner was Vilnius Lithuania a team from Lithuania whiles TU-Delft from Netherlands won the grand prize for the undergrad section and TAS Taipei from Taiwan won from the high school section. The chairman’s award which ...
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