iGEM 2020, gold medal for a rice biosensor

A joint team won a gold medal at iGEM, the international synthetic-biology competition, in November 2020. Their biosensor detects Aspergillus, a fungus that destroys around 40 per cent of rice grains in storage after harvest in Sri Lanka.

Eight undergraduates from the Kumoh National Institute of Technology in Korea worked with us on the project, called “Save Our Rice Anywhere”.

The biosensor has not yet been put into use.