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Desalination

The Concept

Near the ocean but you don't have any water to drink? Have no fear, desalination is here! The CSU iGEM team has a great concept for you to use that just might come to a store near you! Simply insert our tea bag, that contains our special yeast, into a glass of sea water and within minutes you'll have salt free water! That's not all though, take your tea bag and use it to power a light bulb or something like that...

Results

So our plan was to design our bio-bricks using Gibson Assembly and gBlocks. However we were unable to get the Gibson Assemblies to work, and we were unable to produce our parts. One big hurdle in designing our parts were that some of the sequences for the proteins we wanted to use had many restriction enzyme sites that were not compatible with the bio-brick standards. This is why we chose Gibson Assembly of gBlocks over PCRing our sequences out of the yeast genome.