IQUIBICEN   23947
INSTITUTO DE QUIMICA BIOLOGICA DE LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS Y NATURALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Hacking biology to improve society
Autor/es:
ALEJANDRO NADRA
Reunión:
Workshop; Gathering for Open Science Hardware; 2017
Resumen:
Introduction In the last decade or so, there have being significant advances towards hacking biology and designing biological machines. Advances on synthetic biology deeply rely on interdisciplinary teams and students vanishing boundaries. Many society problems have solutions in the academia but those hardly reach the people.Our goal is to use existing tool/resources (or create them) to applying technology towards solving Latin American problems.One implementation: Argentina is one of the countries with more arsenic in its groundwater, having around 4,000,000 people exposed to its unnoticed consumption. Arsenic measurement in private wells is limited by the high costs, the need of specialized personnel and the distance to urban areas. The Industrial design and synthetic biology are combined in an innovative development that uses genetically modified bacteria to detect toxic arsenic levels in drinkable water based on synthetic biology tools. It was designed to be cheap and easy to use (image based instruction will be enough). The device has a modular design which enable us to detect other of water pollutants, with minor genetic modifications.