Team PseudoFreeze from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia won the Overall Prize at this year’s Biodesign Challenge Summit. Their project, a biodesigned vaccine refrigeration system, was featured in Forbes Magazine.
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Global promoter of materials-based solutions highlights how biotechnology can address global challenges.
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Students from across nine countries are gathering at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Parsons School of Design on June 20-21 for the Biodesign Challenge Summit to showcase projects that use biotechnology to address global challenges.
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Gizmodo features Pink Chicken Project in an article exploring what post-Anthropocene futures will look like.
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Pink Chicken Project has been featured in a Discover Magazine Article.
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A group of design students from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia earned the PETA Prize for Animal-Free Wool in the 2018 Biodesign Challenge. Woocoa is a vegan wool alternative made from hemp and coconut fibers treated with enzymes extracted from the oyster mushroom.
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Vancouver Sun features UBC’s project, MYCOmmunity Toilet. It was the winner of the 2018 Biodesign Challenge.
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Mental Floss profiles UBC’s project, MYCOmmunity, which was the winner of the 2018 Biodesign Challenge.
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Team Woocoa from the Universidad de los Andes was featured in Forbes Magazine. The team won the Animal-Free Wool Prize sponsored by PETA, Stella McCartney, and Stray Dog Capital.
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MYCOmmunity Toilet, winner of the Biodesign Challenge 2018, was featured in Fast Company's article, "The Toilet of the Future is Made of Mushrooms."
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Team Woocoa from the Universidad de los Andes wins the Animal-Free Wool Prize sponsored by PETA, Stella McCartney, and Stray Dog Capital.
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NEO.LIFE featured highlights from projects presented at the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2018.
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Smithsonian Magazine shares the work of UniAndes students who created animal-free wool.
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BDC 2018 projects from the Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Istmo, University of California, Davis, and Parsons School of Design were featured in Fast Company.
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BDC projects #Growapair, MyoTomato, Kichin, & Algiknit were included in Core77's "Best of WantedDesign 2018."
BDC 2016 winner AlgiKnit was recently featured in Forbes Magazine for recent innovations made to their algae-based yarn.
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Stella McCartney is partnering with PETA and investment firm Stray Dog Capital to sponsor the first-ever PETA Prize for Animal-Free Wool Prize at the 2018 Biodesign Challenge, an international competition that offers university students the opportunity to envision future applications of biotechnology.
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Liv Bargman reports on the process of designing the award-winning project, Quantworm Mine, for the Biodesign Challenge 2017.
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