Team:Edinburgh

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   <h1>RewirED</h1>
   <h1>RewirED</h1>
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   <p>Controlling bacterial populations should allow more complex biological systems to be created. RewirED has worked to bring the first components of that future closer through iGEM, in order to allow greater access and sharing of scientific knowledge, and greater communication and responsiveness from bacteria.</p>
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   <p>Better control of bacterial populations should allow more complex biological systems to be created. RewirED has worked to bring the first components of that future closer through iGEM, in order to allow greater access and sharing of scientific knowledge, and greater communication and responsiveness from bacteria.</p>
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<h2>Our aims</h2>
<h2>Our aims</h2>
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<p>Microbial consortia are the next step in advancement for synthetic biology. Large advances such as self regulating populations of bacteria and the production and destruction of highly complicated biological products are the aim of the field. To be able to build not only a single organism but an entire networking system of organisms with modular components requires specific criteria and components. We sought to expand the possibilities for this field through our project.</p>
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<p>In order to improve globally equality, both monetary and medically, the accessibility of new technologies is imperative. Our project designed a intercellular communication and control system that could be used to stabilise the composition of dynamic population of bacteria. This would simplify the use of complicated biological systems such as microbial consortia.</p>
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<h2>Our Project</h2>
<h2>Our Project</h2>
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<p>Metabolic wires are a new way of connecting logic gates in different cells – their orthogonality and extensibility means there is potentially no limit to how intelligent a population of bacteria can be.</p>
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<p>We focused on the definition of microbial consortia, namely, systems. This was done through three sub-projects; Metabolic wiring and the three wires we investigated, degron characterization to improve the responsiveness of systems, and population control to experiment with actual control mechanisms. Policy and Practices informed the considerations of our model system’s design and it in turn influenced the exploration of these same themes in iGEM teams.</p>
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<p>We set out to make three sets of metabolic wires, using trans-genic aromatic enzymes, cis-genic aromatic genes, and ‘sugar logic.’ We also set out to build a population regulation system to showcase these wires, and a new set of degrons to make the system more robust.</p>
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