Team:Valencia UPV/Practices
The idea of Minecraft is simple. Create your own constructions using blocks by moving them from one site to another in a 3D virtual world. This idea has catch more than 34 million players that are moving around, manipulating their space in order to build everything that comes out from their imagination. We also wanted to create our dream: SynBiocraft mod From an engineering point of view, Minecraft is just a huge 3D matrix where every cell can contain a lot of information. With a little knowledge of java language, the blocks inside the game can be modified; more kinds of blocks can be created, and the most important, more different traits can be implemented to those blocks. This allowed us to implement Synthetic Biology inside the game. DNA pieces, machines, DNA ligation, Petri dishes… this powerful tool provides all possibilities to recreate the practices that can be done in a lab without spending material and without having to wait days in order to carry the experiment out. In fact, ligations always occur, no mistakes, no one opens your termocycler while the ligation is being carried out and plasmid insertions are always done correctly, there are always white colonies. We implemented: DNA blocks with the information of the FASTA files. Hello world The safety of a project is always a very important part to take into account, especially if the project involves living organisms*. For that reason in our project we have taken all the safety precautions while working in the lab. Things like working on sterile conditions, using gloves or disposing waste in the corresponding container were the bases of our diary work lab, obviously.
But with our project, AladDNA, we thought to make a step further and think about the safety of our circuit chassis, our genetically modify plant. We had to make a real effort in this due to that the special characteristics that our plant has:
# Drugs production. (enlace)
# Circuit activation by light at different wavelength.
# Functionality of both things named before in a germinated seed.
We want AladDNA to be a safe project for the environment and for people all over the world. (esto centrado y en cursiva)
To afford all the questions that appeared during the realization of the project we decided to talk to some experts in the area. Also we make some research in the field of legality of transgenic modify organisms and the regulation of the plant growing and production. To see in more detail click the buttons bellow.
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Safety
Expertise
Legal aspects
Solutions to have a safety AladDNA
Collaboration