Team:Queens Canada/Project/Rationale
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<regulartext> The QGEM 2011 team was largely motivated by successes such as the use of the bacterium <i>Alcanivorax borkumensis</i> in bio-remediation, 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). A rather far-fetched but nonetheless intriguing point is that if the system was proven to work in a model organism (such as <i>C.elegans</i>), it is conceivable that it could work in other multicellular eukaryotic organisms as well. </regulartext> | <regulartext> The QGEM 2011 team was largely motivated by successes such as the use of the bacterium <i>Alcanivorax borkumensis</i> in bio-remediation, 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). A rather far-fetched but nonetheless intriguing point is that if the system was proven to work in a model organism (such as <i>C.elegans</i>), it is conceivable that it could work in other multicellular eukaryotic organisms as well. </regulartext> | ||
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