Team:Carnegie Mellon

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<p>We have also been continuing the work of <a href="https://2007.igem.org/Carnegie_Mellon/Yoghurt" class="external text" title="https://2007.igem.org/Carnegie_Mellon/Yoghurt" rel="nofollow">our 2007 team</a> in engineering <i>Escherichia coli</i> to <b>produce the vitamin A precursor β-carotene</b>. Vitamin A is required for vision and a healthy immune system. 250,000-500,000 children in the developing world lose their vision each year, half of them dying within 12 months of this (<a href="http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/vad/en/" class="external text" title="http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/vad/en/" rel="nofollow">WHO</a>).
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<p>We have also been continuing the work of <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:Carnegie_Mellon" class="external text" title="https://2012.igem.org/Team:Carnegie_Mellon" rel="nofollow">our 2012 team</a> in engineering <i>Escherichia coli</i> to <b>be awesome</b>. Here is a link to awesomeness (<a href="http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/vad/en/" class="external text" title="http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/vad/en/" rel="nofollow">WHO</a>).
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Team:Carnegie_Mellon

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Contents

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.


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Motivation question?

Humanistic implications go here

Primary Objective: A Useful BioBrick for Synthetic Biologists

A false-colour SEM of MicroMaize cells.
A false-colour SEM of MicroMaize cells.

We have been xxxxxyyyy for the purpose of xxxyyy which is detailed by the following:

  1. something great
  2. something greater
  3. something awesome

This will be xxxyyy

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: