Team:TU Dresden/Improve
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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Gold Medal Criterion #2
Improve a Previous Part - Standard Tracks: Convince the judges that you have created a new BioBrick Part that has a functional improvement upon an existing BioBrick Part. You must perform experiments with both parts to demonstrate this improvement. Clearly document the quantitative experimental characterization data on the Part's Main Page on the Registry for both the existing and new parts (see the Registry Document Parts page for instructions).
Both the existing and new part must be RFC10 or Type IIS compatible. The sequences of the new and existing parts must be different. The existing part must NOT be from your 2019 part number range and must be different from the part you used in Bronze #4. The new part you create must also be different from the new part documented in Silver #1. Please see the Measurement Resources page for more information about experimental characterization data.
Improve a Previous Project - Special Tracks: Improve the function of an existing iGEM project (that your current team did not originally create) and display your achievement on your wiki.