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Current Ideas of Possible Projects


Contents

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.