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Duke's iGEM team: Friendlier than they might appear

Project title: Engineering novel inputs for control of bacterial systems

Description: This year, the Duke GEM 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, an essential step in bringing synthetic biology out of the lab and into the public. While electronic and photonic systems are extremely well-behaved and understood, previous experience at iGEM has shown that biological systems can be unwieldy, at best; this summer we are engineering parts and systems to integrate electronic and photonic systems into genetically engineered ones for a greater bacterial ability to synchronize, communicate, and be regulated. Meanwhile, we are attempting to use these new elements to attenuate the precise protein manufacture of tunable co-polymeric plastics with exciting new properties.

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