Participate in the iGEM competition for synthetic biology, and open a crowdfunding project to realize the participation * 250 of the best universities in the world participate in the iGEM competition, and it allows undergraduate students to initiate a project independently from start to finish - from coming up with an original idea and implementing it, to marketing it, raising funds for its implementation, and presenting it .
A team of 12 undergraduate students (11 students from various faculties at the Technion and another student from the Wicho College of Design and Education), participating in the iGEM international competition for synthetic biology, set up a crowdfunding project to finance the delegation's stay at the competition.
A few days ago the media reported on The death of a 15-year-old boy in Jerusalem from a milk allergy. Earlier, a tourist from South Africa who ate fish in tahini sauce, unknowingly, died in Israel Asalina is based on sesame - to which she is allergic.
For the members of the Israeli team in iGEM, a solution to the problem. They are going to present in the competition the development efforts of a universal system for detecting substances in low concentrations, from toxins in water and mercury in fish, to allergens and gluten in food. The system can be adapted to any material desired for identification, according to the user's wishes. A friendly bacteria will be used in the system. We see before our eyes the possibility that every person will be able to check the content of their food, in a fast, efficient, accessible and cheap way.
250 of the best universities in the world participate in the iGEM competition, and it allows undergraduate students to initiate a project independently from start to finish - starting with coming up with an original idea and implementing it, to marketing it, raising funds for its implementation, and presenting it.
The competition will be held in October 2014 in Boston, USA, under the auspices of the MIT Institute of Technology. Synthetic biology is an innovative field involving science, engineering and technology. Synthetic biology encourages the use of tools from a variety of fields such as genetic engineering, computer science, electrical engineering and chemistry in order to design biological circuits consisting of components such as DNA, and which constitute a solution to a defined problem.
As part of the fundraising process for the project and public exposure, the group members opened a page on the Head Start crowdfunding site, where the opportunity is given for the participation of the company in Israel in the project.
