Team:Cambridge-JIC

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Our aim is to use the primitive plant Marchantia Polymorpha as a flexible hackable bio-sensor. A plant can contain any input, processing and output module which are parcelled independently into modules and linked together using metabolites and inducible promoters. The modules can easily be interchanged and added, using biotechnology or simple mendelian genetics, allowing many plant-based devices to be constructed from the same library of components. It isthe Arduino of Biology: plug and play!
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Our aim is to use the primitive plant Marchantia Polymorpha as a flexible hackable bio-sensor. A plant can contain any input, processing and output module which are parcelled independently into modules and linked together using metabolites and inducible promoters. The modules can easily be interchanged and added, using biotechnology or simple Mendelian genetics, allowing many plant-based devices to be constructed from the same library of components, at home or in the lab. It is the Arduino of Biology: plug and play!
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Sensing is critical to all living things. Sensing allows us to detect to our environment, adapt to it and know the effects our our own actions and learn from them. With detection comes an ability to predict the effects of actions, an understanding of the mechanism and ultimately a lead into controlling the system. Without sensing, all units of life would act as independent unit.
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Ideal sensors are reliable, accurate and unobtrusive. Plants as bio-sensors fulfil these requirements and have the further benefit of being inexpensive and self-reproducing.
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Sensing is critical to any life. It allows us to detect to our environment, adapt to it and know the effects our our own actions and learn from them.
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If you don't know what is out there, there is no possibility of interaction or response. Sensing is therefore a highly valued skill in Nature and in our Society. The result of this detection should be clear, quantifiable and user friendly.
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Ideal sensors are reliable, accurate and unobtrusive. Plants as bio-sensors fulfil these requirements and have the further benefit of being inexpensive and self-reproducing.
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