Stanford-Brown 2017 iGEM Team
World Maker Faire 2017
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Stanford-Brown 2017 iGEM Team
Stanford-Brown iGEM team consists of 11 members - 5 from Stanford and 6 from Brown University. We spent the summer working at the NASA Ames Research Center in California engineering biological solutions to current challenges in space exploration.
Come and extract DNA from fruits and vegetables while learning about the endless possibilities of synthetic biology by designing your own DNA plasmid on bioengineering softwares! Did we mention you can fold your own DNA origami?
What inspired you to make this project?:
There are materials and capabilities that would enable or greatly enhance space exploration, but present production on Earth requires a substantial mass and infrastructure. For example, while rubber is ubiquitous in our lives, from our gloves in the lab to the soles of our shoes to the tires on our cars, bringing a rubber tree into space is impractical. Rubbers have incredible applications as shock absorbers, insulators, or even as lubricants. Similarly, batteries have their own unique issues in terms of payload expense and chemical hazards. Additional application might certainly become apparent in the event both the rubber, or even the battery, be created from self-healing materials.
As a team of young scientists and curious explorers, we chose to dedicate our summers to the development of synthetic engineering projects to propose solutions to current challenges in space exploration. Our aim? To push the limits of Science.
