<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/56e035f9-dc0d-4d7f-b5f7-29068b9b0ebd/A7F91CE5-FEC4-4EBB-9A6F-5AED610DEE3E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/5022316/mad-science-contest-build-a-lifeform-and-well-send-you-to-hong-kong-or-give-you-1000" href="http://io9.com/5022316/mad-science-contest-build-a-lifeform-and-well-send-you-to-hong-kong-or-give-you-1000" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5022316/mad-science-contest-build-a-lifeform-and-well-send-you-to-hong-kong-or-give-you-1000"><H1><A class="top" href="http://io9.com/5022316/mad-science-contest-build-a-lifeform-and-well-send-you-to-hong-kong-or-give-you-1000" linkindex="56" set="yes">Mad Science Contest: Build a Lifeform and We'll Send You to Hong Kong or Give You $1000</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5022316/mad-science-contest-build-a-lifeform-and-well-send-you-to-hong-kong-or-give-you-1000"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/CBA68C2A-9488-4421-B6EB-21A2DAC5C7CE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5022316/mad-science-contest-build-a-lifeform-and-well-send-you-to-hong-kong-or-give-you-1000">io9 wants to encourage mad scientists in every field, but especially in the area of <A href="http://io9.com/tag/synthetic-biology/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY" rel="nofollow" class="autolink" linkindex="57" set="yes">synthetic biology</A>. That's because synthetic biologists are the people who are going to build new life forms, like ligers and unicorns and people with claws and glowing eyes. OK, they might build bacteria that can clean up oil spills and repair damaged kidneys too. The point is, building new lifeforms is the science of the future and therefore you can never have too many garage laboratories and mad scientists devoted to it. That's why io9 is sponsoring a contest to find two of the best synthetic life forms you can design for us. The winners in our two categories will get either an all-expenses-paid trip to the kickass <A href="http://sb4.biobricks.org/" linkindex="58">Synthetic Biology Conference in Hong Kong</A> this October, or $1000 and a chance to have their creature drawn by a cool comic book artist. Find out more below.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7F91CE5-FEC4-4EBB-9A6F-5AED610DEE3E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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