Team:Cambridge/Quiescence

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This Project seeks to design a device that can be used to switch cells into a non-growing, but metabolically active state. A system like this would be highly desirable, as it could be used to increase the efficiency of expression of plasmid genes. Quiescence would be a useful safeguard against loss of plasmids, which can cause the culture to be overgrown by plasmid-free bacteria. It could also help to reduce the frequency of undesirable mutations and provide a supplementary bio-safety mechanism.
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This Project seeks to design a device that can be used to switch cells into a non-growing, but metabolically active state. A system like this would be highly desirable, as it could be used to increase the efficiency of expression of plasmid genes. Quiescence would be a useful safeguard against loss of plasmids, which can cause the culture to be overgrown by plasmid-free bacteria. It could also help to reduce the frequency of undesirable mutations and provide a supplementary bio-safety mechanism, if escaping bacteria were unable to replicate.
=='''R'''egulator of '''c'''ell '''d'''ivision RNA==
=='''R'''egulator of '''c'''ell '''d'''ivision RNA==

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