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Stephanie Herman
Teresa Reinli
Joakim Hellner
Alexander Virtanen
Jennifer Rosenius
Marcus Hong
Miranda Stiernborg
Tim Hagelby Edström
Viktor Blomkvist
Megha Biradar
Niklas Handin
Jonas Mattisson
Arina Gromov
Nils Anlind
Eric Sandström
Gunta Celma
Oliver Possnert
Martin Friberg
Kira Karlsson
Christoffer Andersson
Laura Pacoste
Andries Willem Boers
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With the spreading of Antibiotic resistance society has a big problem to tackle to save the people of tomorrow. If we do not find an alternetiv to antibiotics WHO estimates that the world will be thrown back to the hospital situation of the 1800’s. This year Uppsala iGem tries to combat this problem by using the pathogens own quorum sencing system to help probiotic bacteria find and kill that specific pathogen leaving the gut flora intact.