Team:Liceo Eugenio Hostos

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ABSTRACT:

One of the biggest economic activities in the world is mining, which uphold many countries since mineral exportation generates huge profits that are useful for their economy development. This sounds great and from the mining point of view is perfect making everyone happy, but here is the problem that has not been boarded. Who does this job? The main job is done by miners who crush, dig, and process the minerals for their commercialization. This job exposes them to plenty of dangers like the inhalation of crystalize silica particle expelled in the mine causing a sickness called silicosis, which consists in an inflammation and cicatrization of the lung tissue preventing the proper oxygenation from the air we breathe causing physical disability and eventually death. The implementation of protection of protection by the miners in their working hours is rarely used and they do not care about the risks. to address this problem, we as LICEO_EUGENIO_HOSTOS iGEM created a genetically modified bacterium that upon contact with silica particles produces red luminescence, in order to alert workers of the presence of silica dust in the environment and raise awareness about the risks to which workers are exposed in the mining.

Story of Hostos Chile

Hostos Chile is one of the first teams from south america that participate in igem, in the start we were more of 20 student but finally were only four the finalists".

For be able to be here first , we competed as school , then us received by us received by the teachers of the university mayor, knowledges of biology synthetic , biotecnology and biology molecular for begin our proyect , once idealized our proyect, we presented front to representates of ministery of economics of chile , explora conicyt , representates of corfo , authorities of the others school ( san andres of maipu and emilina urrutia ) . in this presentation informed us that we been officially registred in igem and begin assembled our bacteria . us working more of 9 month , holidays of summer and winter for terminate our bacteria.