No edit summary |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
==== Game and iGEM Project 2008 ==== | ==== Game and iGEM Project 2008 ==== | ||
<br/><br/><br/> | |||
Just a first, brief comment on the idea of making a kind of computer game, but with genetically modified bacteria. As some of you might already know, the iGEM project of our team in 2008 was about creating an artificial preditor-prey system by genetically modifying bacteria. We wanted therefore to create bacteria that would: | Just a first, brief comment on the idea of making a kind of computer game, but with genetically modified bacteria. As some of you might already know, the iGEM project of our team in 2008 was about creating an artificial preditor-prey system by genetically modifying bacteria. We wanted therefore to create bacteria that would: | ||
a) swim towards a target bacteria | a) swim towards a target bacteria | ||
b) kill that target bacteria when it would reach it | b) kill that target bacteria when it would reach it | ||
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
It is possible to influence (I would not say control, but at least strongly influence) the direction in that bacterial colonies on an agar plate swim by putting repellent and attractand molecules at different points on the plate. To give you one example: If I would put aspartate in the middle of an agar plate with E. coli colonies on it, the E. coli would move in direction of the aspartate. Their are different E. coli strains, that do contain different or even no receptors. Find a comparisn of swimming and not-swimming bacteria [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/images/f/f3/SwarmingPic.jpg here]. | It is possible to influence (I would not say control, but at least strongly influence) the direction in that bacterial colonies on an agar plate swim by putting repellent and attractand molecules at different points on the plate. To give you one example: If I would put aspartate in the middle of an agar plate with E. coli colonies on it, the E. coli would move in direction of the aspartate. Their are different E. coli strains, that do contain different or even no receptors. Find a comparisn of swimming and not-swimming bacteria [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/images/f/f3/SwarmingPic.jpg here]. | ||
In general that could be interesting if you wanted to make bacteria swim toward each other. | In general that could be interesting if you wanted to make bacteria swim toward each other. | ||
====Go with the flow==== | ====Go with the flow==== | ||