Past participant of iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine, the competition mentioned in the article) here. Infuriatingly, this writeup fails to mention that the E. chromi (and all the other projects) was carried out by undergraduate students (this is the team: http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Team), perhaps because it makes it sound less trustworthy and sellable. According to the same website, the "designer Daisy Ginsberg" was involved peripherally, at best.