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==== Game and iGEM Project 2008 ====

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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

The second part (killing) worked really good, but the first part (swimming towards a certain target) didn't work out so good.

But anyway, there are interesting implications in both parts I want to comment on.

'''''a) making bacteria swim in a certain direction'''''

It is pretty well known in literature, that bacteria have certain so-called chemotaxis receptors [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Heidelberg/Project/Sensing] on their surface. These receptors are, in nature, used for recognizing attractand molecules (nutrition, i.e. sugar) or repellents (i.e. toxic molecules).

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 ==== Game and iGEM Project 2008 ====
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-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:<br/>
-a) swim towards a target bacteria
+a) swim towards a target bacteria <br/>
-b) kill that target bacteria when it would reach it
+b) kill that target bacteria when it would reach it<br/>
 The second part (killing) worked really good, but the first part (swimming towards a certain target) didn't work out so good.
 But anyway, there are interesting implications in both parts I want to comment on.
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 '''''a) making bacteria swim in a certain direction'''''
 It is pretty well known in literature, that bacteria have certain so-called chemotaxis receptors [http://2008.igem.org/Team:Heidelberg/Project/Sensing] on their surface. These receptors are, in nature, used for recognizing attractand molecules (nutrition, i.e. sugar) or repellents (i.e. toxic molecules).