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Team:Carnegie Mellon
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Team:Carnegie_Mellon
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Introduction: Motivation
- We seek to develop a BioBrick that will allow researchers in the field of synthetic biology to accurately measure translational efficiency, and transcriptional strength.
- We believe that we can use Spinach as a biosensor to reflect these metrics in vivo, rather than in vitro, which has previously proven to be very costly and impractical.
- We will characterize the relationship between genetic expression of Spinach (upstream), translational efficiency, and transcriptional strength.
Abstract/Introduction
Motivation question
Humanistic implications go here
Primary Objective: A Useful BioBrick for Synthetic Biologists
We believe the development of this unprecedented BioBrick will help synthetic biologists in a variety of applications, for a variety of purposes such as the following:
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Our proposed BioBrick is novel, and potentially very useful in practice.
Secondary Objective: Secondary Objective
We have also been continuing the work of our 2012 team in engineering Escherichia coli to be awesome. Here is a link to awesomeness (WHO).
Further Considerations
In the pursuit of our project, as well as the biological aspects, we:
- considered aspects of scale-up, including the ethical, legal and social implications of our potential final product, MicroMaize,
- programmed a new piece of software for use in metabolic modelling,
- developed and tested techniques for measuring translational efficiency and transcriptional strength,
- participated in human practices demonstration xxx.
