From 2007.igem.org

This was the original, playful text of the page:

Several weeks ago, the Example team condensed directly out of the hoary stratus clouds of inspiration and motive force that inescapably pervade the atmosphere of the iGEM labs, rising like superheated sweat from Randy's enormous brain. These perfect beings emerged much like Athena from Zeus's brow, but with infinitely more grace and self-awareness, for they knew themselves completely: their identity was their task, their mission, their life: to create a vanillin generating device.

Inspired by the work of the MIT iGEM 2006 team on Wintergreen and Banana generating devices, they knew of the need for this new scent-producing device, and of the void that currently existed in the world and in the Registry in it's absence. By effortlessly navigating the iGEM 2006 wiki team pages, they learned the Valencia team of 2006 had used their impressive powers of engineering, computer science, and biology to design and create, ex silico via vivo, a vanillin receptor device. "Intriguing," they thought, "there exists even a molecular void for the small-molecule product of our vanillin protein, a docking site on the Valencia Team's vanillin receptor."

But they needed more knowledge. NCBI's PubMed provided it: a fulltext article by several scientists who had already subcloned several genes that worked together to produce vanillin from ferulic acid. Currently the team of ethereal beings has received the genes from the researchers and is in the process of biobricking both. See one of the designs: .