Team:Queens Canada/Project/Rationale
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<h3red> Why Bioremediation? </h3red><p> | <h3red> Why Bioremediation? </h3red><p> | ||
- | <regulartext> As conventional sources of oil are depleted, there is a demand for petroleum products from other sources. Novel technologies have made once non-economic extraction methods much simpler and cost-effective. A region of explosive growth is in Oil Sands, a resource home to | + | <regulartext> As conventional sources of oil are depleted, there is a demand for petroleum products from other sources. Novel technologies have made once non-economic extraction methods much simpler and cost-effective. A region of explosive growth is in Oil Sands, a resource home to Western Canada. </regulartext><p> |
- | <regulartext>As the Albertan Oil Sands continue to be developed, companies will face significant environmental remediation challenges. In order to ensure the preservation of the environment, novel strategies to find and degrade the toxic by-products of bitumen processing must be implemented.</regulartext> | + | <regulartext>As the Albertan Oil Sands continue to be developed, companies will face significant environmental remediation challenges. In order to ensure the preservation of the environment, novel strategies to find and degrade the toxic by-products of bitumen processing must be implemented.</regulartext><p> |
- | <regulartext> The QGEM 2011 team was largely motivated by successes such as the use of the bacterium <i>Pseudomonas putida</i> in bioremediation, which proved that microbial biodegradation of environmental pollutants is a viable possibility. However, we wished to push the boundaries further, by creating a multicellular eukaryotic organism which could chemotax towards and breakdown certain types of pollutants. The potential for this kind of organism would be great, as it would have a broader travel range than microbes, would be generally safe to use, and could be applied to field assay tests (such as tests for toxins). </regulartext> | + | <regulartext> The QGEM 2011 team was largely motivated by successes such as the use of the bacterium <i>Pseudomonas putida</i> in bioremediation, which proved that microbial biodegradation of environmental pollutants is a viable possibility. However, we wished to push the boundaries further, by creating a multicellular eukaryotic organism which could chemotax towards and breakdown certain types of pollutants. The potential for this kind of organism would be great, as it would have a broader travel range than microbes, would be generally safe to use, and could be applied to field assay tests (such as tests for toxins). </regulartext><p> |
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