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<p><img class="alignright" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/2/2d/Screen-shot-2013-04-13-at-2-25-18-pm.png" alt=" ">Azo dyes are the main synthetic colourant used in the industrial manufacture of a wide range of products such as clothing, upholstery, makeup, tattoo ink and more. These dyes are widely known to be a safe and stable form of synthetic colourant, however when they break down in the guts of organisms they take on dangerous properties. In industry, leftover dye effluent is often not properly disposed of or removed during water treatment which results in the accumulation of azo dyes in water bodies. It is at this point that they are ingested, broken down and excreted as products that have been found to be mutagenic and carcinogenic yet no effort has been made to start disposing of them more responsibly.</p>
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<p><strong>Synthetic Biology - modifying life itself</strong>Synthetic Biology aims to design, build, and test novel biological systems. It consists of conscious and deliberate modification(s) of living organisms by acting on their genetic code. While genetic engineering, in general, is the insertion of foreign genes from one organism to another, synthetic biology wants to go one step further by treating DNA as a true code that can be modified, written and rewritten, in order to obtain new and more complex functions. Once the sequence is designed, this DNA is synthesised and inserted into a living organism, reprogramming its function at our will, and allowing us to modify the ultimate part of nature: life itself.
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We are therefore able to move the genetic information from the physical world to the digital world, where we can alter it intentionally, before bringing it back to the physical world to modify its features and behaviour.</p>
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Goodbye Azo Dye : iGEM 2014 - University College London

 

SynBio?

What is SynBio?

Synthetic Biology - modifying life itselfSynthetic Biology aims to design, build, and test novel biological systems. It consists of conscious and deliberate modification(s) of living organisms by acting on their genetic code. While genetic engineering, in general, is the insertion of foreign genes from one organism to another, synthetic biology wants to go one step further by treating DNA as a true code that can be modified, written and rewritten, in order to obtain new and more complex functions. Once the sequence is designed, this DNA is synthesised and inserted into a living organism, reprogramming its function at our will, and allowing us to modify the ultimate part of nature: life itself. We are therefore able to move the genetic information from the physical world to the digital world, where we can alter it intentionally, before bringing it back to the physical world to modify its features and behaviour.

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University College London - Gower Street - London - WC1E 6BT - Biochemical Engineering Department
phone: +44 (0)20 7679 2000
email: ucligem2014@gmail.com

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