Thanks for visiting! This is where we'll be keeping you guys updated on everything that the University of Calgary 2010 iGEM team is doing.
For those who are unfamiliar, iGEM stands for the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition. This is an undergraduate-driven event, hosted by MIT, where teams from all over the world come together to show off their work in synthetic biology. As of 2010, there are 118 teams competing.
Synthetic biology is a rapidly expanding field that attempts to apply engineering principles to biology. One major part is the standardization of DNA pieces that can be reassembled like building blocks. Each team is given a starter set of "BioBricks" that can be used to solve many problems in biology.
This year, iGEM Calgary is attempting to build a "troubleshooting kit" for gene expression. Many researchers in biology face problems expression various genes into proteins (which do everything in a cell). We're trying to create a system that will show researchers precisely what is going wrong with their gene and where the problem is happening.
More details can be found on our team wiki at http://2010.igem.org/Team:Calgary, which can also be accessed by the link up on the very top.
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