A team of five Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) students won a gold medal in the 'Food or Energy' track at iGEM - 2010 (International Genetically Engineered Machine). iGEM is a competition conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The synthetic biology competition expects students to design components that can be used to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. The IIT-M team attempted to engineer pro-biotic lactic acid bacteria, used to make yogurt and buttermilk, to produce Monellin, a sweetening protein.
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