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| + | Water shortages affect half of the world’s population (currently 7 billion persons). In the next 25 years the numbers of people impacted by severe water shortages is expected to increase four fold. Shortage of potable water has been estimated to account for 80-90% of disease and 30% of mortality for humanity. New energy efficient, scalable, low cost methods to desalinate sea water and brackish water are critical to address this basic need. We are developing an efficient sunlight-powered biomachine, for low cost desalinization of brackish water and sea water. |
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| - | |You can write a background of your team here. Give us a background of your team, the members, etc. Or tell us more about something of your choosing.
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| - | ''Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this as the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)''
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| - | Recent studies have just started to explore the possibility of utilizing existing recombination systems that flip segments of DNA, to store information and perform computations. However, the only systems studied so far are not completely unidirectonal in their ability to flip a segment of DNA. Other systems studied to date have consisted of one unidirectional recombinase capable of flipping a segment of DNA in only one direction, but have lacked a complementary unidrectional recombinase to flip the DNA back in only the opposite direction. Instead, previous systems have relied on “recombination directionality factors”, which when complexed with the unidirectional recombinase, reverse the direction in which it flips the DNA segment. The fim system from E. coli, has been shown to contain 2 unidirectional recombinases, hbif and fime, which flip a promoter containing segment of DNA. Our project seeks to engineer the fim switch by replacing the native promoter with another promoter. We plan to demonstrate that it can function as a reliable and efficient biological transistor, or “transcriptor”. Beyond storing information and performing basic computations, the system would serve as a very useful, tightly controlled switch.
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| - | !align="center"|[https://igem.org/Team.cgi?year=2013&team_name=Michigan Official Team Profile]
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