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Synthetic sports: a bacterial relay race

Synthetic sports: a bacterial relay race

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  • Author(s): J.P. Badalamenti 1 ; L.E. Weiss 1 ; C.J. Buckno 2 ; T.L. Richard 3 ; P.S. Weiss 4 ; P.C. Cirino 5
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    • Affiliations: 1: Schreyer Honors College, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
      2: Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
      3: Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
      4: Departments of Chemistry and Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
      5: Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
  • Source: Volume 1, Issue 1-2, June 2007, p. 61 – 63
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-stb:20070012 , Print ISSN 1752-1394, Online ISSN 1752-1408
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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.

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