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
- an anticancer drug, which is extracted from the pacific yew tree or semisynthesised from european yew needle extracts, at a cost of $6000 per treatment.
- cyclosporin
- rapamycin
Bioredimiation
Detection of Contaminants
Removal of Contaminants
Imobalising Heavy metals so they cant enter water table
Plants
Safety Issues
We cant just release genetically manipulated organisms into the wild to help clean up the environment for a number of reasons. Possible things to consider:
Danger of mutation and effecting environment in adverse ways
Looking at Deinococcus radiodurans with multipe genomes to see if the resistance to rasiation
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.
