Edinburgh/Ideas
From 2007.igem.org
Current Ideas of Possible Projects
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Synthesis
Synthesis of chemotherapy drugs that are hard to produce in nature
- Taxol
- Cyclaspann rapamyan
- etc
Bioredimiation
Detection of Contaminants
Removal of Contaminants
Imobalising Heavy metals so they cant enter water table
Plants
Safety Issues
Danger of mutation and effecting eviroment in adverse ways
Danger of continuing to live after the job is done
We want to ensure the organism will not exist after the clean-up has been completed. This could be done by killing after a set number of generations or time frame. The main thing is to ensure that it is fail safe and a mutation will not allow it to ignore the kill switch.