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Overview of our project

55000 people die of rabies per year and about 95% of human deaths occur in Asia and Africa. We hope our project can reach the WHO goal of being free of human rabies by 2020. The section shows the core consideration of our project.

Yersinia pestis and flea

Y.pestis can form biofilms to colonize proventricular of flea. Blocked fleas can transfer Yersinia pestis to host. The mechanism has been widely researched. Although it is too early for us to release cleaning flea, we do spend much time in thinking of this mechanism. You can find the details of this interesting mechanism in this section.

Bacillus subtilis as vector of vaccine.

Bacillus subtilis have a long history of industrial and biotechnological application. It has been explored as a vector for the expression of foreign proteins with immunological activities. Both of endospores and modified bacteria strain can be use as live carriers of antigen.

Cellular automata

In order to know whether safe moving vaccine factory can reach 70% vaccination coverage of dogs, Cellular automata model has been used to simulate the spreading of immunity.

Judging form

This year is the first time we attend iGEM. And we apply to attend this competition on 27/04/2013. It must be a big challenge for anyone to finish iGEM in just six month. We finish this hard work with trial and error. From our judging form, you can know what we have done in six month.