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* Somewhere I read something about this 'magnetic' bacteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria) - maybe this can be used for orientation/movement. This organism is already successfully used to produce electrical energy. | * Somewhere I read something about this 'magnetic' bacteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria) - maybe this can be used for orientation/movement. This organism is already successfully used to produce electrical energy. | ||
* In many project [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein GFP] is used to inform us about the transcription of a certain protein. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence_resonance_energy_transfer FRET] also uses fluorescent proteins, but they are used to inform us about the binding of proteins. Maybe this can also be used as an alternative output of a system. | |||
=Favourite projects= | =Favourite projects= | ||
Revision as of 02:02, 26 May 2008
Brainstorm area
Some ideas posted by other teams can be found at the Idea exchange page.
Information processing
Schmitt trigger
Bologna worked on a Schmitt trigger last year (University of Bologna 2007). Domenico already gave an explanation about this device. The project is also very well documented so have a look at their site. More about the Schmitt trigger can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger).
What can be done with a Schmitt trigger?
- Create some kind of oscillator - I think Domenico also mentioned this already.
Flip-flop
A digital circuit that can remember it's last state and is thereby capable of storing one bit of information. It could be interesting to make a genetic circuit that can do the same ([1], [2] ).
Other interesting stuff
- Somewhere I read something about this 'magnetic' bacteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria) - maybe this can be used for orientation/movement. This organism is already successfully used to produce electrical energy.
- In many project GFP is used to inform us about the transcription of a certain protein. FRET also uses fluorescent proteins, but they are used to inform us about the binding of proteins. Maybe this can also be used as an alternative output of a system.
Favourite projects
Filippo Menolascina
Domenico Bellomo
Bastiaan
Emrah
Farzad Ehtemam
