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Introduction
Eat coli - The untapped food resource of the century
Click the picture to meet the 2014 SDU iGEM team.
Our project aims to create a nutrition source of high quality from a yet untapped food resource:
Escherischia coli (E. coli). Our project intends to genetically modify a strain of E. coli to overproduce a self-designed
nutritional protein, the OneProt, which contains the perfect distribution of all amino acids, including all the essential
amino acids that must be incorporated through the diet. Likewise, this bacteria will produce essential fatty
acids (ω3-, and ω6 fatty acids), that cannot be produced by the human body. In addition, this amazing
nutrition-combo will be obtained from the degradation of otherwise non-degradable material for humans,
such as cellulose, to make the source sustainable. And of course, we also want it to be tasty!
Our project has several applications. As a current application, the Edible coli is thought as a relief aid for
hunger-stricken countries, since hunger often links to malnourishment due to a diet with a high content of
carbohydrates, the cheapest foods, and a lack of proteins and fatty acids. In a broader aspect, our aim
with this project is to help society on the right track in controlling malnutrition, due to lack of food in
the future. The importance of acknowledging that food comes from a limited source, is a part
of our project. We wish to highlight the limited source of food by presenting a solution to the
problem: Protein and essential fatty acids produced by a strain of E. coli. We hope that our project will lead
to a realization of the limited source of nutrition, and that this realization will be followed by a debate about introducing
nutrition produced by microorganisms and in addition, and acceptance of it.
The idea of generating nutrition from bacteria is a contradiction between the common opinion of how food
is produced and of finding a solution on obtaining food in the future. This means that the importance of
doing good research and including ethics and social aspects will have great impact on our iGEM project.
This project is our proposal for a solution to malnutrition. We intend to present a possible solution, but
we also aim at addressing the problem of malnutrition and the upcoming dilemma of obtaining food for
everybody in a future with more, and more people to share this world.
