Revision as of 14:43, 17 September 2015

House of Carbs

Achievements

Bronze

We’ve registered our team, had a great summer and are looking forward to the iGEM Jamboree! We’ve got a poster and a presentation ready to present there and we’ve completed our iGEM 2015 Judging form.

We’ve made a wiki including a Description page.

We’ve put plenty of new parts in the Registry of Standard Biological Parts - there is a list on our Parts page.

We’ve listed all the people who have helped and trained us on our Attributions page.

Silver

We’ve experimentally validated several BioBrick Parts. You can find data in the registry and on our Results page.

There are significant ethical considerations with the production of bioengineered food supplements. By talking to Cancer charities, people who run trials to test the effects of diet on health, and the public we found out that while the genetic engineering of food is still controversial in Europe, opinions may differ when the reasons for engineering are for the prevention of cancer. You can read all about these studies on our Practices page.

Gold

Advanced Practices

We have expanded on our Integrated Practices because we are making foods and food supplements about which we would like to make a health-claim. We investigated how we would collect data to show if our products reduce cancer incidence in humans.

We consulted experts in the Medical and Nutrition Faculty who have expertise in designing intervention/feeding studies. Having learned about what can be tested and measured and what de-regulation is needed for testing, we designed a theoretical feeding trial that they evaluated for us. Should we develop a product that performs in animal trials we could now progress to deregulation and funding for human trials. There are many projects aiming for healthier foods but few that consider how to prove this experimentally. We believe this study is novel and worth highlighting to the iGEM community.

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-     					<p class="space20">We have expanded on our Integrated Practices because we are making foods and food supplements about which we would like to make a health-claim. We investigated how we would collect data to show if our products reduce cancer incidence in humans. We consulted experts in the Medical and Nutrition Faculty who have expertise in designing intervention/feeding studies. Having learned about what can be tested and measured and what de-regulation is needed for testing, we designed a theoretical feeding trial that they evaluated for us. Should we develop a product that performs in animal trials we could now progress to deregulation and funding for human trials. There are many projects aiming for healthier foods but few that consider how to prove this experimentally. We believe this study is novel and worth highlighting to the iGEM community.
+     					<p class="space20">We have expanded on our Integrated Practices because we are making foods and food supplements about which we would like to make a health-claim. We investigated how we would collect data to show if our products reduce cancer incidence in humans.</p>
+<p class="space10">We consulted experts in the Medical and Nutrition Faculty who have expertise in designing intervention/feeding studies. Having learned about what can be tested and measured and what de-regulation is needed for testing, we designed a theoretical feeding trial that they evaluated for us. Should we develop a product that performs in animal trials we could now progress to deregulation and funding for human trials. There are many projects aiming for healthier foods but few that consider how to prove this experimentally. We believe this study is novel and worth highlighting to the iGEM community.
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