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Alcanivorax Borkumensis is the bacteria that releases enzyme that can decompose oil. And we can design something like insulin producing system to solve oil spilling problems in ocean. | Alcanivorax Borkumensis is the bacteria that releases enzyme that can decompose oil. And we can design something like insulin producing system to solve oil spilling problems in ocean. | ||
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- | Problem: | + | Problem: Similar system already exists. <br><br> |
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- | + | We can make new bacteria that imitate photosynthesis. We can extract only chloroplast part of photosynthesizing organisms – for instance, plants – or use cyanobacteria to make some kind of energy generating building parts: paint (cyanobacteria is the photosynthesizing bacteria). In case of stromatolite, we can use it as building structure. | |
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- | + | Problem: We have to make e.coli to be as big as chloroplast. Also, since it physically surrounds building, there is problem when there is no sun or in bad weather. When it rains it could mess up sewage system.<br><br> | |
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<span style=font-size:15px> <b> Idea 4 </b> </span> | <span style=font-size:15px> <b> Idea 4 </b> </span> | ||
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- | Making a NAND gate with E.coli. We can use 0/1 logic with some kind of chemicals as input and output. And we can make | + | Making a NAND gate with E.coli. We can use 0/1 logic with some kind of chemicals as input and output. And, we can make intermediate phase to prevent unintentional mix up of input and output chemical. We are thinking of lactose tryptophan as input. Since Stanford has done some basic works on this, we can take that advantage. If we make this, we can make a flip flop which is the basic component of memory system. |
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- | If we use chemical as input and output we have to control chemical level. We have to make a system threshold to differentiate 0 or 1.<br><br> | + | Problem: If we use chemical as input and output we have to control chemical level. We have to make a system threshold to differentiate 0 or 1.<br><br> |
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- | + | Making a photographer with yeast. We are making a photographer with RGB cone cells and fluorescence. There already exists a study on cone cell receptors. We can make RGB ratio as 40:20:1 like human retina. Film would be yeast. Therefore, it can grow infinitely. | |
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- | + | Problem: Film cannot be copied. We have to be careful not to get light on film after taking a picture. It is not a matter of sensing but processing images in brain. Therefore, we are not sure of the feasibility. <br><br> | |
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- | + | Copyteria; we make a bacterium that copies. We put dye or degrader in e.coli. It would be important to design a threshold. We have to make bacteria to be alive during the coping process and lose its color after the coping process. So we are making bacteria ink. | |
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- | + | Problem: we don't know the threshold, and, even if it works, Copyteria have to perform in a dark room. Since the idea is to get an image from a reflected image, we don't know how this reflected image would be copied: too many unknown variables.<br><br><br> | |
== April 30 == | == April 30 == |
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