Team:Oxford/policy and practices

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Policy & Practices


Developing the biosensor

One part of our project was developing a cheap and user friendly way of detecting chlorinated solvents, focusing specifically on DCM. The engineering design team worked very closely with the biochemistry team to ensure that the construction of the biosensor went ahead as quickly and efficiently as possible. This involved characterising a previously unknown genetic circuit and then optimising the parameters that we had some form of control over to get the fastest visible response. On top of this, there is a link below to the specifics of the wet lab work and there is also a section on the physical realisation of our product.

HERE WE NEED A VERY CLEAR BIOSENSOR EXPLANATION
In the emerging science of synthetic biology, iGEM is growing as a source of ambitious and imaginative ideas which have the potential to offer great benefits to human society and our environment. The number of successful iGEM start-ups clearly demonstrates that the competition gives team the chance not just to complete a summer project but to come up with a solution which has a positive impact in the real world—in fact, many projects are conceived in the hope of doing just this, often with a specific unresolved social problem in mind. iGEM draws inspiration from the world and the challenges it faces, and contributes back potential solutions.


"Quote from EA about usefulness of our project/bioremediation/synthetic biology generally, the fact that it could actually help the problem etc…”


(British Environment Agency)1