Janet Standeven

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@jrkelly @iGEM @60Minutes Synthetic Biology in schools is critical. Every school should be teaching Biotechnology skills. To build these programs it will take all stakeholders to get involved from educational policy, corporations, academia. Every child should be learning about the coding of life.

Go to @iGEM to see the future of bioengineering!! Best event of the year. So great to see it covered on @60minutes tonight! iGEM needs to be as big as First Robotics in the US if we're going to win biotech this century.

@60Minutes I'm retired. I've been studying biology, molecular biology, evolution and natural selection for more than 20 years in my spare time. When i see these young adults less than 1/3 of my age studying and researching CRISPR/Cas9/gene editing/gene modification, it's gives me great hope

A team of public high school students in Georgia faced some skepticism when they decided to try to come up with a way to detect Lyme disease earlier. But the students at Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, pushed ahead with their idea, using the gene editing technology CRISPR. cbsn.ws/3KiKpMg

Meet the high school genetic engineers manipulating the building blocks of life.

Teens set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease, something that has eluded adult scientists for decades. cbsn.ws/4rv8CzG

“They are so smart I can’t keep up,” says Kate Sharer, biotechnology teacher at Lambert High School in Suwanee, Georgia. “Because they are still teenagers, so they're thinking so far out of the box.” cbsn.ws/48dQB1m

High school science students created a test to detect Lyme disease as early as two days after infection, far sooner than the two weeks with existing tests. cbsn.ws/4pHuAhb

More than 400 teams from around the world, a third of them high schoolers, competed in iGEM 2025. Projects included a new enzyme for treating indoor mold, designing crops to grow on Mars, and eye drops to treat cataracts. cbsn.ws/3M1rYwb

Teacher Janet Standeven was working on bringing synthetic biology to high schools all across Georgia, but the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion. cbsn.ws/3MiLdBj

Stanford professor Drew Endy warned Congress that America’s lead in synthetic biology is slipping, while China has made it a national priority. cbsn.ws/4pEGrfM

Lambert High School in Georgia was the only U.S. school to place in the high school top 10 at iGEM, an international synthetic biology competition. The other top teams included one from South Korea, one from Taiwan, and seven from China. cbsn.ws/4rt3a0d

BEYOND proud of these amazing students from @LambertHS! Learn how they are changing the world (and ranking internationally) on this spot from @60Minutes! cbsnews.com/amp/news/teena… @FCSchoolsGA

CRISPR Kids | Sunday on 60 Minutes youtu.be/dYzCcDJCwgM?si… via @YouTube

CRISPR Kids | Sunday on 60 Minutes youtu.be/dYzCcDJCwgM?si… via @YouTube I’m excited to share this upcoming story on the Lambert iGEM team and the iGEM competition. Training students for the workforce of the future is critical and a central focus of my work in @IGEM and at GTech

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🌍 iGEM 2025 Sponsorship Updates Three Opentrons sponsored teams are presenting in Paris this week: 🇺🇸 Lambert High School – Lyme diagnostics with CRISPR 🇩🇰 DTU BioBuilders – Nylon bio upcycling 🇫🇷 Évry Paris-Saclay – Synthetic carbon fixation Proud to support open science at #iGEM2025

Art and biology have always shared one question: What does it mean to create life? From fungi that thrive on body heat to living ceramics made with microbes, the Art & Design Exhibition at the iGEM Grand Jamboree blurs the line between creation and life. jamboree.igem.org