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Vilnius University students receive golden award at prestigious global competition
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The debut of the Lithuanian team was an absolute success – they received the golden award for the bacterial system ColiClock, VU reports.
The goal of the team was to tackle one of the biggest problems of synthetic biology – the regulation of the spread of GMOs in the environment. The aim of the ColiClock project consists of creating a bacterium with an integrated count-down timer triggering a self-destruction mechanism. The idea would apply to cells that need to have a limited lifetime outside of a laboratory environment. The mechanism is achieved using the type I-F CRISPR-Cas system, controlled by LuxR and cl, that is navigated to important genes in the genomic DNA.
In addition, the students aim to present and discuss this globally relevant topic with Lithuanian industries, policy makers and the society.
During 27-28 September, about 2,700 attendees, 259 teams from all over the world participated in the largest synthetic biology event to date.
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