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Smog is a problem which has been there since quite a while and in recent years there has been a definite increase in the problem so much so that the entire cities seem to be covered with it, for example in Pakistan since a couple of years. We could create a sort of aerosol spray that on being released into the air can  disperse the smog.

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I came across the idea of renewable energy from microbes and it seems quite interesting to be able to convert bacteria into usable fuel. - Daniel

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Deinococcus radiodurans has an extraordinary DNA repair mechanism what makes survival of large dose of ionizing radiation. This mechanism could be used to provide other organsims protection against DNA damage.

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Elimination of fertility factor  from colony

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Elimination of fertility factor  from colony

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Large scale antibiotic resistnace is made possible by lateral gene transfer via conjugation. Desing a plasmid that has delayed destructive effect in bacteria which has the fertility factor, either on plasmid or inserted into chromosome.

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Wetware computing and creating organic servers that could be added to organisms

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Wetware computing and creating organic servers that could be added to organisms

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This could be added to food and nutrition or information processing track as well. For example the creation of organic sensors.

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Efficient Bacteria to produce vitamin B12 in people with deficiency

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Efficient Bacteria to produce vitamin B12 in people with deficiency

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https://asknature.org/

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Technology/methodology/broad ideas from the Information Evening 21st November 2017

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Technology/methodology/broad ideas from the Information Evening 21st November 2017

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•Ideas relating to biomimicry

•Wetware computing and creating organic servers that could be added to organisms

•Increasing (vector?) load size

•The mind machine interface

•Applying optogenetics for something good

•Self replicating tissue (not sure what kind of tissue this is – cleaning tissue or human tissue?)

•Improve CRISPR/Cas9 targeting of specific tissue,  therefore decreasing risk when applying to a more  general  target. Simplify the applying method.

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Environmental/pollution ideas from the Information Evening 21st November 2017

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Environmental/pollution ideas from the Information Evening 21st November 2017

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•Solving water scaling problems in water purification companies

•Stopping spread of disease on the underground

•Mutate enzymes within bacteria that use pollutants as a substrate- converting pollutants into less harmful products. Possibly featuring a containment system that allows air to filter through but contains the modified bacteria (so it is not released into the environment). This could be positioned on skyscrapers etc

•Inert gas supersaturation detection.

•Enzyme that revives dead plant cells in paper

•Using bacteria to clean up contaminated water

•I believe there was a species of bacteria currently found to be able to degrade plastics. Maybe we could contact the discovering university for a sample and coax it to secrete the enzyme responsible? It could be both analysed for its mechanism of action and sold as a produce.

•More eco-friendly cleaning

•Doing something for smog- releasing a spray of some sort that cleans it up

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Therapeutic/Diagnostic ideas from the Information Evening 21st November 2017

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Therapeutic/Diagnostic ideas from the Information Evening 21st November 2017

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•Idea about angiogenesis and organ transplantation (not completely readable – sorry)

•Blood  transfusions – increasing compatibility by either targeting the donor’s antigen or antibodies or by blocking the recipients immune system for that specific blood group

•Targeted tumour blood vessel vasoconstriction

•Enzyme that digests the appendix (non-surgical appendectomy)

•Stopping spread of disease on the underground

•Hangover cure

•Skin clearing treatments

•An enzyme that changes D-glucose to L-glucose so it would not get metabolised and we do not get fat

•Genetically engineered bacteria which can produce enzymes to break down sweat oils to reduce acne. Would outcompete acne-causing bacteria (bacterial face cream for acne)

•Modified bacteria with multiple disease related antigens for more effective vaccines

•Use RNAi to inhibit genes such as LUNA to inhibit signs of skin aging

•Telomere caps preventing degradation

•Quick genetic blood test for markers of disease (think 60 second HIV test)

•Bioengineering bacterial to biomark particular diseases e.g. diabetes, cancer

•Modify bacteria that might cause Parkinson’s (a study from a couple of years ago) so they don’t produce the substances that cause the disease

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Using the antimicrobial (and beneficial to human health) properties of plant essential oils and aromatic plants to stop spread of disease on public transport - diffusion, sprays etc. Also applicable as spray on poultry to combat widespread contamination of Campylobacter pylori and E. coli.

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Antimicrobial resistance: no or very few new antibiotics are being created and tested, and resistance is a growing concern. A lot of research on the potential for bacteriophage, a class of easily modified viruses that attack bacteria, has been done in eastern europe, but because of political and language barriers, little of it has spread to the English speaking world. With such a multicultural community maybe we could begin to bridge some gaps

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Working towards finding an energy non-intensive way to harness power of enzymes to produce ammonia for agricultural and industrial purposes - currently difficult and intensive to purify the enzyme, but if we could find a way to use a bacterium or other or progress this problem could yield massive benefits