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<h2> Welcome to iGEM 2015! </h2> | <h2> Welcome to iGEM 2015! </h2> | ||
<p>Your team has been approved and you are ready to start the iGEM season! </p> | <p>Your team has been approved and you are ready to start the iGEM season! </p> | ||
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<li> <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Wiki_How-To">Wiki Requirements page</a></li> | <li> <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Wiki_How-To">Wiki Requirements page</a></li> | ||
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| + | <p>How do Zebrafish get their stripes? Why do we have only 5 digits on each hand? | ||
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| + | Here's one possible answer: Turing Pattern. | ||
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| + | Turing Pattern is a type of spatial pattern suggested by the British mathematician Alan Turing. He proposed that these patterns could be created by the network of two chemicals which have different diffusion rate. These two molecules are called the activator and inhibitor. | ||
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| + | Because of its simplicity, the theory has attracted scientist in many fields, and thus various research has been carried out in the last 60 years. However, it was not easy to prove directly if those patterns are produced by the reaction-diffusion systems or another mechanism. Living systems are so complex that most research was exclusively theoretical. Biologists still face a big problem: identification of proper molecules acting as activator and inhibitor. | ||
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| + | We therefore reconstructed a Turing system using two advantages of synthetic biology; controllability and biological directness. By letting whole E. coli cells, whose motility were controlled, communicate with each other, we succeeded in making the whole system work more identically than any previous researches. This project should surely be a great step for understanding more about morphology and some other related fields of science. Now, the new door of synthetic biology has opened and awaits you to come in! | ||
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<h4> Styling your wiki </h4> | <h4> Styling your wiki </h4> | ||
<p>You may style this page as you like or you can simply leave the style as it is. You can easily keep the styling and edit the content of these default wiki pages with your project information and completely fulfill the requirement to document your project.</p> | <p>You may style this page as you like or you can simply leave the style as it is. You can easily keep the styling and edit the content of these default wiki pages with your project information and completely fulfill the requirement to document your project.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 15:16, 15 July 2015
PROJECT DISCRIPTION
How do Zebrafish get their stripes? Why do we have only 5 digits on each hand?
Here's one possible answer: Turing Pattern.
Turing Pattern is a type of spatial pattern suggested by the British mathematician Alan Turing. He proposed that these patterns could be created by the network of two chemicals which have different diffusion rate. These two molecules are called the activator and inhibitor.
Because of its simplicity, the theory has attracted scientist in many fields, and thus various research has been carried out in the last 60 years. However, it was not easy to prove directly if those patterns are produced by the reaction-diffusion systems or another mechanism. Living systems are so complex that most research was exclusively theoretical. Biologists still face a big problem: identification of proper molecules acting as activator and inhibitor.
We therefore reconstructed a Turing system using two advantages of synthetic biology; controllability and biological directness. By letting whole E. coli cells, whose motility were controlled, communicate with each other, we succeeded in making the whole system work more identically than any previous researches. This project should surely be a great step for understanding more about morphology and some other related fields of science. Now, the new door of synthetic biology has opened and awaits you to come in!