Team:TU Dresden/Contribution
Beaming Biobricks from Space...
Project DipGene
The Journey
A GLOBAL PROBLEM
The limited accessibility and affordability of DNA-sequence specific test is a problem of global scale, not only for those who are forced by these limitations to live in uncertainty about predisposition of genetic diseases of loved ones and themselves but also for life science researchers in their daily work in the laboratory.
OUR SOLUTION
We designed a fast, cheap, and easy to use tool that can be applied anywhere by anyone and is able to detect any nucleic acid sequence of interest.
ENGINEERING CYCLE
As in the development of every scientific engineering problem, we went through a series of iteartive cycles not only in the design of our big problem, but also in solving the many small subproblems that occured on our way.
INTEGRATED HUMAN PRACTICES
Since most genetic disease show symptoms with increasing age, therefore senior people are our stakeholders and it was a great experience to adapt our project to this unique group. Since our example gene to test for was the SRY-gene we also invited representatives of the local transgender community to talk about our project.
RAISING AWARENESS
We did not only present on several science slams and other big public events, wrote articles for several newpapers and blogs, to spread the word of iGEM and synthetic biology, but we also organized the first-ever lab- and institute-discovery tour especially for people of advanced age. Because there is far too little done to make science accessible to those who could benefit best from ist medical advances.
our great sponsors
We are proudly sponsored by the following partners in science:
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Bronze Medal Criterion #5
Characterization - Standard Tracks: Convince the judges that you have added quantitative experimental characterization data to an existing Part from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Clearly document the experimental characterization on the Part's Main Page on the Registry (see the Registry Document Parts page for instructions). The part that you are characterizing must NOT be from a 2019 part number range. It is acceptable to add new data to an already highly characterized part. Please see the Measurement Resources page for more information about experimental characterization data. Sample submission is not required.
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