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We had a formal [[Duke/Projects/abstract|abstract]] submitted a few months ago, but to keep this short and sweet this year's Duke GEM team is essentially interested in tackling problems associated with '''engineering bacterial systems to be easily controllable by ''clean, macroscopic inputs'' in order to create ''useful, macroscopic products'''''. In the course of our [[Duke/Projects/brainstorming|brainstorming]], we started to become slightly obsessed with the idea. We wanted to make bacteria you could shock or heat or light up into submission. Not stopping there, we wanted bacteria which would make their own voltage and bacteria that could shine their own light, and then after they've communicated and worked, we wanted bacteria which could give us a useful product with a real need.
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We had a formal [[Duke/Projects/abstract|abstract]] submitted a few months ago, but to keep this short and sweet This year's Duke iGEM team is interested in tackling problems associated with '''engineering bacterial systems to be easily controllable by ''clean, macroscopic inputs'' in order to create ''useful, macroscopic products'''''. We became obsessed with trying to find solutions to these problems. We wanted to make bacteria we could control like a computer, with electric fields and light and heat. Not stopping there, we wanted to make bacteria that could generate their own electric fields, and their own heat, and after they'd been programmed, interacted, and formed networks, we wanted bacteria that could yield precise and complex materials. Of course, we broke this up into several smaller projects.
Here are our projects for the summer:
Here are our projects for the summer:
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* [[Duke/Projects/fc|Bacterial solar fuel cell]]
* [[Duke/Projects/fc|Bacterial solar fuel cell]]
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Furthermore, as a team we were not opposed to the recombination of [http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22727&SPID=1845&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=152135&Q_SEASON=2005 Sheldon Williams]' and [http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22763&SPID=1846&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=151935&Q_SEASON=2005 Alison Bales]' DNA to clone a race of super- power forwards, but lacked the 6'-10" cloning chambers we'd need for the project. And of course, there's always [https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2007/e/e7/Dukegemcover.jpg this idea], but we watched 'The Fly' again and decided against it.
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Furthermore, as a team we were not opposed to the recombination of [http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22727&SPID=1845&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=152135&Q_SEASON=2005 Sheldon Williams]' and [http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22763&SPID=1846&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=151935&Q_SEASON=2005 Alison Bales]' DNA to clone a race of super- power forwards, but lacked the 6'-10" cloning chambers we'd need for the project. And of course, there's always [https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2007/e/e7/Dukegemcover.jpg this idea], but we just watched 'The Fly' again and decided against it.

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Projects

We had a formal abstract submitted a few months ago, but to keep this short and sweet This year's Duke iGEM team is interested in tackling problems associated with engineering bacterial systems to be easily controllable by clean, macroscopic inputs in order to create useful, macroscopic products. We became obsessed with trying to find solutions to these problems. We wanted to make bacteria we could control like a computer, with electric fields and light and heat. Not stopping there, we wanted to make bacteria that could generate their own electric fields, and their own heat, and after they'd been programmed, interacted, and formed networks, we wanted bacteria that could yield precise and complex materials. Of course, we broke this up into several smaller projects.

Here are our projects for the summer:

Furthermore, as a team we were not opposed to the recombination of [http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22727&SPID=1845&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=152135&Q_SEASON=2005 Sheldon Williams]' and [http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22763&SPID=1846&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=151935&Q_SEASON=2005 Alison Bales]' DNA to clone a race of super- power forwards, but lacked the 6'-10" cloning chambers we'd need for the project. And of course, there's always this idea, but we just watched 'The Fly' again and decided against it.