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Team:Weimar-Heidelberg Arts/Project/Kokoromo
From 2010.igem.org
"Since the beginning of the chemical prime-age in the early 19th century most organics with their natural abilities got replaced by new synthetic substances employed in medicine, food production, as constructional material or fuel. As a result even former popular plants with a medical, societal or industrial backround sank into oblivion with a bad reputation as unaesthetical weeds. Our association with chemicals and plants has not changed since, although we know today that chemical products may cause harmful side-effects as cancer. That is why kokoromo, as a green project, not only presents itself as a buyable product, but also as a intermediator between a modern humans needs and a plants right to exist. Kokoromo demonstrates an alternative for a greener and more sustainable lifestyle in coexistance with plants."
Vanessa Walk
Product Description
Technical Description
kokoromo', our all-in-one product, contains only the best mossy abilities. For this purpose, 'kokoromo' is engineered out of four special moss species in our synbio labs via complex knock-out treatments. This allows us to first target the particular skills required from the moss genes and to derive them from their genetical modules, so that a new moss type can be assembled in the final stage and synthesized by our treehugger-scientists.
