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                        <h3>About our Project</h3>
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                        <p>Everything there is to know about the science and logistics behind our journey.</p>
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                        <h3>Meet the team</h3>
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                        <p>Get to know us! Learn of all our diverse background and how we are all making this iGEM team brilliant. <br>(And that we're not just a team of guys!)</p>
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                        <p>The place where all of our soon to come blogs will reside.</p>
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                        <p>A collection of all of the photos and pics we have, and are taking, in this great journey.</p>
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        <h3 class="short_headline"><span>University College London, iGEM Team 2014 - Goodbye Azo Dye!</span></h3>
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        <p><a href="/Team:UCL/about">Azo dyes</a> are the main synthetic chemical colourant used in the industrial manufacture of a wide range of products, such as clothing, cosmetics, tattoo ink, food, and more. These compounds are generally considered to produce safe and stable forms of dyes, however, when they are metabolised in the guts of animals, their breakdown products may include mutagens and carcinogens. In some (textiles/dye) industries, leftover dye effluent is often not adequately disposed or removed during water treatment, which can result in the accumulation of <a href="/Team:UCL/risk">azo dyes in water bodies</a>. It is at this point that azo dyes can be ingested, broken down, and excreted as potentially toxic (mutagenic or carcinogenic) aromatic amine products. Removing azo dyes in a sustainable manner remains a major challenge, both for the developing world and industrialised nationals.
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        <p>In response to this challenge, the project for the <a href="/Team:UCL/team_ug">UCL iGEM Team 2014</a> is to design, model, and construct an engineered Azo-Remediation Chassis (ARC) with <a href="/Team:UCL/biobricks">BioBrick Parts</a> that are:
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        <p>To validate the above approach, we will first introduce genes encoding three sequentially-acting enzymes (azoreductase, laccase, and lignin peroxidase) into a host <em>E. coli</em> cell. These transformed <em>E. coli</em> cells will then be introduced to a mixture of azo dyes (emulating wastewater).
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                <h3><a href="/Team:UCL/about">About our project</a></h3>
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