Team:Cambridge/Tools/Lighting

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We wanted to provide some proof of concept of these ideas.  We built the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFscEVK5Ks bacterial bubble lamp] to investigate this, and also read the Jungle Book using a flask containing E. coli expressing our bacterial luciferase.
We wanted to provide some proof of concept of these ideas.  We built the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFscEVK5Ks bacterial bubble lamp] to investigate this, and also read the Jungle Book using a flask containing E. coli expressing our bacterial luciferase.
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We had thought about bacteria being used for emergency lighting, and our advisor Fernan printed a fire exit sign, which was placed over a plate containing one of our strains of E. coli.  In a real system we would imagine using anhydrobiosis to create bacteria 'in hibernation' which could be activated when needed.
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