Team:UNAM-Genomics Mexico

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The Gist

Synthetic Biology has been enabling changes in all bio-domains, one such being communication. Traditional cellular communication has relied since time immemorial on chemical messengers to exchange information. Regardless of their scope, these messengers are constrained to a system; eg: even far reaching couriers such as hormones are bound within the chemical structure that is the human body. But this is about to change.

In this project, our goal is to render the chemical barrier deprecated by using a non-chemical herald: photons. These will transport information between our engineered cells, creating a photon-based inter-cellular communication system.

These messengers are produced through bio-luminescent reactions, and are quite capable of traversing multiple environments. This enables the transmission of information beyond the chemical, biological, and even spatial limitations. As the courier is effectively decoupled from the chemical layer, it is an innovative step in establishing communications between organic-based and silicon-based systems, such as computers.

Movie

We made this short animation to show the concept behind our project.

Welcome

You are very much welcome to our Wiki! We have invested considerable effort in it, we hope you like it.

iGEM

iGEM is the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition, held each year at MIT and organized with support of the Parts Registry. See more here.

Synthetic Biology

This is defined as attempting to manipulate living objects as if they were man-made machines, specifically in terms of genetic engineering. See more here.

Genomics

We are students on the Genomic Sciences program at the Center for Genomic Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, campus Morelos. See more here.

This site is best viewed with a Webkit based Browser (eg: Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari),

or a Gecko one (eg: Mozilla's Firefox, Netscape). Some of the code requires an up-to-date browser.

Trident based (Microsoft's Internet Explorer) or Presto based (Opera) are not currently supported. Sorry.

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-Synthetic Biology has been enabling changes in all bio-domains, one such being
+Synthetic Biology has been enabling changes in all bio-domains, one such being communication. Traditional cellular communication has relied since time immemorial on chemical messengers to exchange information. Regardless of their scope, these messengers are constrained to a system; eg: even far reaching couriers such as hormones are bound within the chemical structure that is the human body. But this is about to change.
-communication. Cellular communication has relied since time immemorial on
-chemical messengers to exchange information. As such, these messengers regardless
-of their scope, are constrained to a chemical system; even far reaching
-messengers such as hormones are bound within the chemical system that is
-the human body. But this mode is about to change.
-In this project, our goal is to render the chemical barrier deprecated by
+In this project, our goal is to render the chemical barrier deprecated by using a non-chemical herald: photons. These will transport information between our engineered cells, creating a photon-based inter-cellular communication system.
-using a non-chemical messenger: photons. These will transport
-information between cells that have been designed to sense and emit light,
+These messengers are produced through bio-luminescent reactions, and are quite capable of traversing multiple environments. This enables the transmission of information beyond the chemical, biological, and even spatial limitations. As the courier is effectively decoupled from the chemical layer, it is an innovative step in establishing communications between organic-based and silicon-based systems, such as computers.
-thus creating a photon-based inter-cellular communication system.
-These messengers are produced through bio-luminescent reactions, and
-are quite capable of traversing multiple environments. Consecuently, this enables
-the propagation of information beyond the chemical, biological and even spatial
-restrictions. As the messenger is effectively decoupled from the chemical layer,
-it is a natural step in the communications bridge between organic-based and
-silicon-based systems, such as computers.