Gallery: Synthetic Biology Is ... Complex. But This Exhibit Makes It a Blast

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    Local Projects worked with San Jose's Tech Museum to create an interactive exhibit about synthetic biology.
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    The exhibit is broken into a few different installations, including this real wet lab that allows visitors to create new colored organisms.
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    The Creature Creation Station teaches visitors to create new organisms by combining pieces of DNA>
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    The goal of the exhibit is to make synthetic biology more understandable and relatable.
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    Visitors take control of the rules behind nature’s emergent systems to design new coat patterns on life-size animal sculptures.
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    The camouflage projected onto creatures.
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