Kyoto # Avoideer - From the Flask to the Field - # With one in nine people suffering from hunger, achieving global food security is now a more pressing issue than ever. One of the biggest challenges to achieving this goal is agricultural damage from wild animals, and in Kyoto, deer are the main cause of this problem. This year, iGEM Kyoto proposes a new solution that utilizes engineered E. ...
NMU-China # Gut-Sweeper: an engineered E. coli that integrates prevention, monitoring and treatment of constipation # Functional constipation is prevalent among the elderly, which gains an increasing concern as the population ages. In keeping with our view of “local people solve local problems”, we have designed our Gut-Sweeper, namely, an engineered E. coli that integrates prevention, monitoring, and treatment of constipation. We firstly empowered our engineered bacteria with monitoring ability by the butyrate sensory module, which can detect a distinct lowered butyrate concentration, a research-proven constipation marker. ...