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| + | <p>The 2014 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology iGEM team created Victor the Vector to aid in teaching the youth of the world about synthetic biology. Victor the Vector is a hands-on interactive device that allows students to build basic synthetic biology systems and watch instructional videos about the systems that were built. This way students can experience building synthetic biology systems without the need of a wet lab or any wet lab experience. This is done by modeling the shape and design of Victor the Vector as a plasmid which contains twelve slots in which different parts of a synthetic biology system can be placed. This way all the user has to do is take the provided parts and plug them into Victor the Vector in the correct order to produce a viable synthetic biology system. This is meant to mimic how synthetic biologists take different genetic parts and put them together in a novel way in a plasmid. If the student has plugged the correct pieces into Victor the Vector in the correct order, then it will initiate an instructional video which the student can watch to learn more about the system that he or she build. This way students can get a hands-on approach with building synthetic biology systems an a basic understanding of some of the components and the order in which parts need to be organized to create a synthetic biology system. Our hope is that by giving the students a device to play and interact with, they will gain a better appreciation and understanding of this nanoscale science.</p> | ||
| + | <p>The plug-in parts for Victor the Vector were created with a 3D printer that uses PLA (polylactic acid). PLA, a biodegradable polyester, is a polymer of lactic acid and comes from biological sources such as corn starch. This is desirable in a polymer for plastic products because it can be broken down and recycled into the environment. Our team used scraps from the 3D printing and recycled them back into lactic acid, which could then be used to grow the <i>E coli</i> in our system. This helped us to reduce our waste materials, and more efficiently use our resources.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 14:12, 12 August 2014
Project Description
Content
Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this as the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)
References
iGEM teams are encouraged to record references you use during the course of your research. They should be posted somewhere on your wiki so that judges and other visitors can see how you though about your project and what works inspired you.
You can use these subtopics to further explain your project
- Overall project summary
- Project Details
- Materials and Methods
- The Experiments
- Results
- Data analysis
- Conclusions
It's important for teams to describe all the creativity that goes into an iGEM project, along with all the great ideas your team will come up with over the course of your work.
It's also important to clearly describe your achievements so that judges will know what you tried to do and where you succeeded. Please write your project page such that what you achieved is easy to distinguish from what you attempted.
