Third Security sponsors team in cutting-edge synthetic biology competition

Third Security, LLC, a private equity and venture capital firm, will sponsor a team of Virginia Tech students taking part in the 2007 International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition. The annual iGEM jamboree, which focuses on the cutting-edge science of synthetic biology, takes place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston on November 3 and 4.