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         <p>Perfecting everything and admiring our wiki which is totally done at this point. All's well, we can just relax before the Jamboree.</p>
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         <p>After a long while, our genes finally arrived. Now we can take them and other parts we've assembled and the whole genetically engineered machine together.</p>
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Revision as of 10:49, 26 August 2014

Journal

Overview

We worked hard but it all paid off. We had fun, we made new friends. We did something new, we learned something new. It was an amazing journey.

We also have more details to share, if you have the interest to read it all! You can click the links below each month and it'll direct you to all the contents of our working journal.

  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • Office work is going great

    4/07/2014

    Lorem Ipsum and such.

  • Crazy things happen in the lab!

    4/07/2014

    Hope the weather gets a bit nicer...

    Y'know, with more sunlight.

  • Crazy things happen in the lab!

    4/07/2014

    Hope the weather gets a bit nicer...

    Y'know, with more sunlight.

  • Office work is going great

    3 hours ago

    Lorem Ipsum and such.

  • Office work is going great

    3 hours ago

    Lorem Ipsum and such.

  • Crazy things happen in the lab!

    4/07/2014

    Hope the weather gets a bit nicer...

    Y'know, with more sunlight.

  • Crazy things happen in the lab!

    4/07/2014

    Hope the weather gets a bit nicer...

    Y'know, with more sunlight.

  • July 2014
  • Insane things happen in the lab!

    14/08/2014

    Hope the weather gets a bit nicer...

  • June 2014
  • BioBrick Seeker on the iGEM help-page and Community-page

    25/06/2014

    It has been on the help page for a while. We only noticed it now.

    We also wrote a thing for the Community page and got them featured on there.

  • First BioBrick ligation combo working!

    24/06/2014

    We even checked it with a gel

    Gel picture:

  • Writing sponsorship applications

    10/06/2014

    Also new pictures. Like a new group photo.

  • Trouble in the lab

    08/06/2014

    The backbones don't seem to be working right and the negative control keeps growing.

  • BioBrick Seeker spreading.

    02/06/2014

    Tons of mentions on Twitter. People seem to like it a lot.

    Try it out!

  • May 2014
  • First version of BioBrick Seeker!

    30/05/2014

    It started from the mild inconvenience of searching for BioBricks in the lab. We had no idea it would eventually be used on 5 continents.

  • First BioBrick transformation in Finland!

    26/05/2014

    Cooool.

  • Website is done!

    23/05/2014

    Check it out! It's cool!

  • Lab kicks off!

    20/05/2014

    ...by making plates. Not that mind-blowing, but very important.

  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • Making an Introduction Video

    30.3.2014

    We made an introduction video of us so we could apply to Summer of Startups. We got pretty good stuff!

  • Hackaton

    23.3.2014

    The first version of our website was built. We wanted it to look cool.

  • Throwing ideas

    18.3.2014, 25.3.2014

    Some brainstorming. Wild ideas. Rating the ideas. Post-it gradient.

  • The First Meeting

    14.3.2014

    The first team meeting was held on a Friday afternoon. Some of us met each other for the first time ever, some had met before already. We talked about the project and got to know each other.

  • The Beginning
  • Oskarin muistelot

    The first steps

    Oskari kirjoittaa.