2009 Wiki - possible products

Aberdeen_Scotland

"Pico Plumber", a strand of bacteria that can find leaks and corrosion in pipes, reaching them by chemotaxis (although how this would work in realife is not clear from their wiki, since the bacteria need an attractant. would need to be some kind of chemical that is released from pipes when they break). Upon reaching high density at the leaking site, they start producing a glue enzyme (not really specified, they mention tropoelastin, a protein that makes blood vessels elastic. can't tell from their wiki if that's their "glue"). Can be something you can use on a small scale at home for your water pipes.

British Columbia

E.coli Traffic Light

A strand of E.coli bacteria that senses chemicals of choices and gives a green, yellow or red fluorescent output. Could show a potentially dangerous rise in concentration for pollutants. Same as Cambridge, but with fluorescent proteins, which is very unhandy for at home use.

Brown

Allergene

A naturally occuring bacterium in the human nasal flora, Staphylococcus epidermidis, is used as a vehicle for the delivery of an anti-allergic drug that is produced only upon allergic reaction. This would come in the form of a nasal spray, I assume.

Cambridge

E. chromi

The E. Chromi strain of bacteria can be used for out- and indoor sensing of chemicals (i.e. pollutants) and gives a colour output in form of visible dye that can be directly analysed without fancy laser equipment. Plus the sensor is concentration sensitive.

Chiba

E. coli timer

A timer that is triggered by a chemical and depending on concentration gives an output after a certain time. Could be used together with E. chromi, or for boiling eggs.

Cornell

again a biosensor in form of a bacteria. It can sense the toxic heavy metal cadmium (very important for agriculture). Output is a fluorescent protein.

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Laura iGem 19:01, 6 August 2010 (CEST)

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