[DIYbio] Re: IndieBB Crowdfunding Campaign: Help me make a great beginner's kit for DIYbio/synbio!

I agree that there should be a toxin switch if it is simple for you to make. 

Also, I had another thought for your campaign. Perhaps make the colicin part biobrick compatible. Try and get iGem teams to fund your project as well, since there is quite a few of them and a self selection method would allow for some awesome biological switches, just what they are looking for.

-Koeng

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:57:31 AM UTC-8, Cathal Garvey (Phone) wrote:
Colon is basically anaerobic or microaerobic, you'd get no glow. If anything, the luciferase would eat up what oxygen remained!

"Mega [Andreas Stuermer]" <masters...@gmail.com> wrote:
This night I was just thinking about the following: 

What if you put the lux operon into it and somehow get the bacteria in your gut? And, if they would be able to stay in there
Then your intestines would be weakly glowing (but lower oxygen levels would likely limit this) 


The blue light would help stimulate DNA repair, so colon cancer rates may be drastically lowered? 
I assume the light induced DNA repair mechanism (via p53) is still present in human cells. 

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