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=Project description=
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=Preliminary description=
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The Cambridge team has been brainstorming ideas. We have narrowed our ideas down to four topic areas:
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* Bioluminescence
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The Cambridge iGEM team will be investigating bioluminescence and quiescence in ''E. coli''. Our broad targets will be to:
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* Implementing an ELISA-like diagnostic test in bacteria
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* Maximise light output from bacterial or firefly luciferase
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* Turing patterns
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* Characterise a device with a known transfer function between PoPs input and light output
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* Quiescence in Bacillus or E. coli
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* Partially reconstruct the biosynthetic pathway of luciferin
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* Create a biobrick for the induction of quiescence in ''E. coli''
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* Improve the existing switching mechanism for quiescence using aptamers
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Our focus will shift over the course of the project, and objectives may be added and removed, but the end goal ideally is to have a strain of ''E. coli'' which will stop growing and start emitting light on a trigger.
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We intend shortly to settle on one of these ideas and to produce biobricks and proof-of-concept systems, then measure and characterise them.
 
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