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UC Santa Barbara Scientists Will Eliminate Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs with Newly Acquired Synthetic Biology Robotics System
This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. Researchers in UC Santa Barbara’s newly designated Biological Engineering (BioE) Department have received a significant boost from the U.S. Army, which awarded the university a $9.85 million grant to design and purchase state-of-the-art equipment that project leader Michelle O’Malley, a professor of chemical engineering and biological engineering, says “allows…