Synthetic sports: a bacterial relay race.

Autor: Badalamenti, J. P., Weiss, L. E., Buckno, C. J., Richard, T. L., Weiss, P. S., Cirino, P. C.
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Zdroj: IET Synthetic Biology; Feb2007, Vol. 1 Issue 1/2, p61-63, 3p, 2 Color Photographs, 2 Diagrams
Abstrakt: Pennsylvania State University is well known for the breadth and depth of its athletic programs. But, until last year, the Penn State Athletic Department had focused on tuition-paying and scholarship-funded eukaryotes, while bacteria had languished in neglect. To reconcile this apparent inequity, we designed a bacterial relay race. We eventually hope to have a multi-leg relay race with laps, but for the initial iGEM competition the project was simplified to a ‘hand-off’ where a group of motile bacteria would encounter an immotile group, transferring a signal to turn on the latter's motility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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