Team:TPHS San Diego/Attributions

Breakdown of Trimethylamine via Trimethylamine Dehydrogenase to Minimize Heart Disease Caused by Red Meat Consumption

Acknowledgements

We’d like to give a special thanks to Anjana Rao and Jerry Lio of the Rao lab at the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology for their incredible help in the project planning and for mentoring us on some of the technical issues that we faced during our experimentation. We’d also like to thank all the UCSD professors and interviewees that greatly expanded our perspective on this project and gave us a deeper insight into how we could expand our project. The amazing, collaborative work that we were able to achieve demonstrates the interconnected nature of science, we could not have done this without you.

University of California San Diego

Torrey Pines High School

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Integrated DNA Technologies

Intuit

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