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− | <p>Growing fish consumption rates encouraged marine culture farms to implement recirculating aquaculture systems <span class="read_more_text">that make intensive fish production compatible with environmental sustainability. Even if these systems reduce the use of terrestrial resources, water recirculation in such systems can cause significant losses because of bacterial or viral infections. A common pathogen of fish infections is the Flavobacterium genus bacteria, which can cause fish death in a few days after the initial infection. To detect the infection as soon as possible, we developed a rapid detection test based on helicase-dependent amplification and lateral-flow assay methods. Additionally, we created a novel treatment method which relies on a quorum sensing mechanism and exolysin protein with the aim of decreasing antibiotic consumption levels. Finally, to prevent forthcoming infections, our third goal is to provide a prevention system based on subunit vaccines encapsulated in alginate beads.</span> | + | <p>Growing fish consumption rates encouraged marine culture farms to implement recirculating aquaculture systems |
− | <span class="read_more"></span></p> | + | <span class="read_more_text">that make intensive fish production compatible with environmental sustainability. Even if these systems reduce the use of terrestrial resources, water recirculation in such systems can cause significant losses because of bacterial or viral infections. A common pathogen of fish infections is the Flavobacterium genus bacteria, which can cause fish death in a few days after the initial infection. To detect the infection as soon as possible, we developed a rapid detection test based on helicase-dependent amplification and lateral-flow assay methods. Additionally, we created a novel treatment method which relies on a quorum sensing mechanism and exolysin protein with the aim of decreasing antibiotic consumption levels. Finally, to prevent forthcoming infections, our third goal is to provide a prevention system based on subunit vaccines encapsulated in alginate beads.</span> |
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<p>Space exploration drives us further away from Earth and will lead to year-long space travel. Some essential nutrients, <span class="read_more_text">such as vitamins, cannot be stored on the spacecraft since they rapidly lose nutritional value over time. iGEMINI aims to supplement astronauts’ food with nutritional and tasty yeast supplement. We designed a quasi-autonomous coculture between the acetogen bacterium <i>Clostridium ljungdahlii</i> and the yeast <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>. This system uses minimal resources which are currently considered as waste on spacecraft. As a proof of concept, the yeast has been engineered to produce provitamin A, an essential vitamin for human health. Since astronauts' tastes are altered by physiological changes in their body, we give them the choice to choose their favorite flavors by using optogenetic systems. Our project builds new bridges between space research and microbiology, and multiple efforts have been done to promote space synthetic biology as a truly promising and exciting scientific field.</span> | <p>Space exploration drives us further away from Earth and will lead to year-long space travel. Some essential nutrients, <span class="read_more_text">such as vitamins, cannot be stored on the spacecraft since they rapidly lose nutritional value over time. iGEMINI aims to supplement astronauts’ food with nutritional and tasty yeast supplement. We designed a quasi-autonomous coculture between the acetogen bacterium <i>Clostridium ljungdahlii</i> and the yeast <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>. This system uses minimal resources which are currently considered as waste on spacecraft. As a proof of concept, the yeast has been engineered to produce provitamin A, an essential vitamin for human health. Since astronauts' tastes are altered by physiological changes in their body, we give them the choice to choose their favorite flavors by using optogenetic systems. Our project builds new bridges between space research and microbiology, and multiple efforts have been done to promote space synthetic biology as a truly promising and exciting scientific field.</span> | ||
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<iframe width="100%" height="100%" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups" src="https://video.igem.org/videos/embed/02f6b705-eeb3-41db-ae7b-67e20cdc6497?warningTitle=0&peertubeLink=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | <iframe width="100%" height="100%" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups" src="https://video.igem.org/videos/embed/02f6b705-eeb3-41db-ae7b-67e20cdc6497?warningTitle=0&peertubeLink=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | ||
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<p>Tea is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. For a long period, a large amount of glyphosate has been used as a herbicide, <span class="read_more_text">which raises a severe problem of pesticide residues in tea food. XMU-China aims at developing an efficient glyphosate detection and degradation system. For the detection system, glyphosate is degraded by several enzymes and then transferred into a measurable fluorescence signal caused by the NADPH; and the degradation system plans to disintegrate glyphosate to be AMPA to minimize the toxicity. Two suicide switches controlled by different inducers are also projected. It is hoped that this project could provide new ideas for the detection and degradation of pesticide residues. Taking care of the earth by tiny bacteria, we here promise a better future of tea.</span> | <p>Tea is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. For a long period, a large amount of glyphosate has been used as a herbicide, <span class="read_more_text">which raises a severe problem of pesticide residues in tea food. XMU-China aims at developing an efficient glyphosate detection and degradation system. For the detection system, glyphosate is degraded by several enzymes and then transferred into a measurable fluorescence signal caused by the NADPH; and the degradation system plans to disintegrate glyphosate to be AMPA to minimize the toxicity. Two suicide switches controlled by different inducers are also projected. It is hoped that this project could provide new ideas for the detection and degradation of pesticide residues. Taking care of the earth by tiny bacteria, we here promise a better future of tea.</span> | ||
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<p>The complex regeneration of biochemical energy sources represents a cost-intensive hurdle <span class="read_more_text">for many production and research processes. With M.A.R.S., we want to establish an innovative strategy to create light-powered, mitochondrion-like protocells and a bioreactor that will recycle those cells by magnetism. Through the design of our reusable recycling system it will be able to power every ATP-driven enzyme cascade, making M.A.R.S. universally applicable. By extracting bacteriorhodopsin out of <i>Halobacterium salinarum</i>, a phototrophic archaea species, and combining it with an ATP synthase from <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> in self-produced polymersomes and liposomes, we get simple but effective chassis, which make it possible to cover the energy requirement of any enzyme reaction cascade. Binding those chassis to magnet particles via anchor peptides enables the reuse of the entire protocell system within the reactor by means of magnetic purification, whereby they can be fed directly into enzyme cascades, without depending on living cells.</span> | <p>The complex regeneration of biochemical energy sources represents a cost-intensive hurdle <span class="read_more_text">for many production and research processes. With M.A.R.S., we want to establish an innovative strategy to create light-powered, mitochondrion-like protocells and a bioreactor that will recycle those cells by magnetism. Through the design of our reusable recycling system it will be able to power every ATP-driven enzyme cascade, making M.A.R.S. universally applicable. By extracting bacteriorhodopsin out of <i>Halobacterium salinarum</i>, a phototrophic archaea species, and combining it with an ATP synthase from <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> in self-produced polymersomes and liposomes, we get simple but effective chassis, which make it possible to cover the energy requirement of any enzyme reaction cascade. Binding those chassis to magnet particles via anchor peptides enables the reuse of the entire protocell system within the reactor by means of magnetic purification, whereby they can be fed directly into enzyme cascades, without depending on living cells.</span> | ||
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