Vesta Institute of Biochemistry
The Vesta Institute of Biochemistry, located in Novyi Petrovichi, 4 Vesta, the Main Belt, is a post-secondary educational institute founded in 2009 to teach both the theory and practice of genetic engineering (both mundane and handwavium-assisted). The school also carries out basic research in the field of biomodification, working with Star Labs to investigate the possibility of reversing biomods; as yet, this research has prove fruitless.
One of the school's major sources of income is Jurassic Rock, a theme park located in what used to be the Institute's hazardous-experiment-containment asteroid until a graduate project succeeded in cloning pseudo-dinosaurs there in 2011.
VIB is a sister school to the Vesta Institute of Robotics.
Well-known Senshi geneticist Leda Swansen graduated at the top of the first class through VIB's genetics program in 2010.