Team:Grenoble-EMSE-LSU

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<h2>Light Automated Cell Control</h2>
<h2>Light Automated Cell Control</h2>
<p><strong>We developed  TalkE'coli, a bioelectronic device to control the growth rate of a bacterial population with light (and it works !).</strong><br><br>
<p><strong>We developed  TalkE'coli, a bioelectronic device to control the growth rate of a bacterial population with light (and it works !).</strong><br><br>
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                                 Bacteria are among the fastest growing and most widespread organisms on Earth. They can thrive in nearly every environment or ecosystem, and some can double their population in only 10min <a href="#ref_home">[1]</a>. Even though bacterial growth follows quite simple mathematical laws, many parameters of this process are far from being fully understood. This makes bacterial growth hard to control in a laboratory. Thus unraveling these genotypic and phenotypic processes represents an important challenge in current public health issues. We have developed a biological system that will enable researchers to <a>control live cell density</a> in a culture. Such a tool could be of great interest for improving our understanding of bacteria: characterizing oxidative stress defence and recovery, monitoring growth media component consumption rates, or just making sure the culture you left Friday evening in the lab is in the same state on Monday morning.<br><br></p>
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                                 Bacteria are among the fastest growing and most widespread organisms on Earth. They can thrive in nearly every environment or ecosystem, and some can double their population in only 10min <a href="#ref_home">[1]</a>. Even though bacterial growth follows quite simple mathematical laws, many parameters of this process are far from being fully understood. This makes bacterial growth hard to control in a laboratory. Thus unraveling these genotypic and phenotypic processes represents an important challenge in current public health issues. We have developed a biological system that will enable researchers to <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Grenoble-EMSE-LSU/Project">control live cell density</a> in a culture. Such a tool could be of great interest for improving our understanding of bacteria: characterizing oxidative stress defence and recovery, monitoring growth media component consumption rates, or just making sure the culture you left Friday evening in the lab is in the same state on Monday morning.<br><br></p>
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