Year Environment Food or Energy Health and Medicine Manufacturing New application Number of teams 2004         Photographic bacteria UT Austin Team 5 2005         Caltech Team 13 2006 Arsenic biosensor Edinburgh Team Tissue generation in mammalian Princeton Team 32 2007 Self-powering electrochemical biosensor Glasgow Team Butanol production using bacteria Alberta Team A synthetic biology approach against HIV Ljubljana Team Extensible logic circuit in bacteria USTC Team 54 2008 Electrical reporting system to detect toxins in water Brown Team Bacterial biosensors with electrical output Harvard Team mmunobricks against lielcvbacter pylon' Slovenia Team Biofabricator using Bacillus sublilis Imperial College Team Engineer epigenetic control of gene expression USTC Team 84 2009 E. Chromi, a kit for biosensors construction Cambridge Team Ethanol production through whey metabolization UNIPV-Pavia Team lmmuni-T. coil, a probiotic approach to diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease Standford Team The E.ncapsulator, a drug production and delivery platform Imperial College Team Lighting Cell Display Valencia Team 112 2010 Heavy metal bioreporter and bioabsorbentPekin Team agrEcoli, detects and signals the presence of nitrates BCCS-Bristol Team AAV 'virus construction kit', gene delivery using viral vectors Freiburg Bioware Team Controlling the production of an organized biostructure MIT team Platform of DNA-guided scaffold to arrange various functional protein domains Slovenia Team 130 2011  A Biosensor for Naphthenic Acids Calgary Team Make It or Break It, diesel production and gluten destruction Washington Team Tissue self-construction to achieve specific patterns of cell differentiation MIT Team Cell-free method to produce complex biomolecules Cornell Team Synthetic biology tools for space exploration Brown-Stanford Team 165 2012 bWARE, mechanisms of biosafety in synthetic biology Paris Bettencourt Team Food Warden, system that detects meat spoilage Groningen Team Bistable toggle switch for mammalian cells Slovenia Team Arachnicoli, spider silk production in E ea Utah State Team Arachnicoli, spider silk production in E ea Utah State Team Beadzillus, biobricks collection from B.  subtilis LMU-Munich Team 190 2013 Physco Filter, transgenic moss capable of reducing contamination TU Munich Team FerryTALES, biosensor identify cattle that excrete 5.619i/ 0157:H7 Calgary Team Cardiobiotics, prevent cardiovascular disease by reducing the metabolism of dietary L-carnitine UIUC Illinois Team Plasticity, bioplasticproduction from mixed waste Imperial College Team WormBoys, first artificial synthetic symbiosis with bacteria engineered to ride on worms Valencia Biocampus Team 215 *2014 iGEM was not over at the time this document was written. *The selection of the projects intends to give an overview of the projects application and not to qualify the projects relevance when compare to others.

Table 1: Selection of representative applied projects along the 9 years iGEM competition [data extracted from 1,2].