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‎Lecture: Tom Ellis - Synthetic Biology

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 * Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops - http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25885756
 "With these purple tomatoes you can get the same compounds that are present in blueberries and cranberries that give them their health benefits - but you can apply them to foods that people actually eat in significant amounts and are reasonably affordable," she said. The purple pigment is the result of the transfer of a gene from a snapdragon plant - the modification triggers a process within the tomato plant allowing the anthocyanin to develop.
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	* “In my early twenties, I felt that my life could be one big experiment, and in my mid-twenties I am coming to terms with the fact that no, my life is actually my life,”		* “In my early twenties, I felt that my life could be one big experiment, and in my mid-twenties I am coming to terms with the fact that no, my life is actually my life,”
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		+	* Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops - http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25885756
		+	"With these purple tomatoes you can get the same compounds that are present in blueberries and cranberries that give them their health benefits - but you can apply them to foods that people actually eat in significant amounts and are reasonably affordable," she said. The purple pigment is the result of the transfer of a gene from a snapdragon plant - the modification triggers a process within the tomato plant allowing the anthocyanin to develop.

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 ** modelling and simulation
 ** opensource innovation
-* example: 10 years ago - edge detection of images - image edge dectect to biological process of cells - abstraction w/ logic gate system through E.coli + v fischeri + lambda phase + cyanobacteria
+* example: 10 years ago - edge detection of images - image edge detect to biological process of cells - abstraction w/ logic gate system through E.coli + v fischeri + lambda phase + cyanobacteria
 * iGEM uses biobricks
-* registry of standard parts - opensource, modular
+* registry of standard parts - open source, modular
 ** plasticity - recycling bioreactor, MAPLE)
 ** auxin - bacteria promoting revegetation through signals to plant to put down more fibrous roots
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 ** microbes to kill cancer
-* ellis lab- areas of interst - dna assembly, pattern formation, cellular capacity,  engineered regulation , intrinsic containment, synthetic genome, the first artificial organistion - electronic code - 2010: craig venter institute - acomplete sysnthesis of a mllion base parrt bacterial genome from electronic code (w/ watermarks) [most pretentious bacteria, charlie brooker could not help but quip)
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 == Definition of Synthetic biology ==

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	== Lecture: Tom Ellis - Synthetic Biology ==		== Lecture: Tom Ellis - Synthetic Biology ==

		+	* the engineering of biology, which displays functions not found in nature
		+	* hacking the codebooks for life - DNA genomes
		+	* biology as information science - custom dna sequences to be written chemically
		+	* classic method (aimed at accelerating biotech and biosciences)
		+	** standardisation
		+	** modularity
		+	** abstraction
		+	** design rules
		+	** modelling and simulation
		+	** opensource innovation
		+	* example: 10 years ago - edge detection of images - image edge dectect to biological process of cells - abstraction w/ logic gate system through E.coli + v fischeri + lambda phase + cyanobacteria
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		+	* iGEM uses biobricks
		+	* registry of standard parts - opensource, modular
		+	** plasticity - recycling bioreactor, MAPLE)
		+	** auxin - bacteria promoting revegetation through signals to plant to put down more fibrous roots
		+	** parasight - bacterial that changes colour if infected with deadly parasite
		+	** e.chromi - pigmented e.coli
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		+	* real projects right now
		+	** biofuels
		+	** antibiotics
		+	** natural fertilisets
		+	** rapid printing of vaccines
		+	** microbes to kill cancer
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		+	* ellis lab- areas of interst - dna assembly, pattern formation, cellular capacity, engineered regulation , intrinsic containment, synthetic genome, the first artificial organistion - electronic code - 2010: craig venter institute - acomplete sysnthesis of a mllion base parrt bacterial genome from electronic code (w/ watermarks) [most pretentious bacteria, charlie brooker could not help but quip)

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	* http://exploringtheinvisible.com/		* http://exploringtheinvisible.com/
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		+	[[Category: Design Interactions]]

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	* [F]or the limits to which our thoughts are confined, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature it self; some parts of it are too large to be comprehended, and some too little to be perceived, and from thence it must follow, that not having a full sensation of the object, we must be very lame and imperfect in our conceptions about it, and in all the propositions which we build upon it; hence we often take the Shadow of things for the substance, small appearances for good similitudes, similitudes for definitions; and even many of those, which we think to be the most solid definitions, are rather expressions of our misguided apprehensions than of the true nature of the things themselves. —Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665)		* [F]or the limits to which our thoughts are confined, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature it self; some parts of it are too large to be comprehended, and some too little to be perceived, and from thence it must follow, that not having a full sensation of the object, we must be very lame and imperfect in our conceptions about it, and in all the propositions which we build upon it; hence we often take the Shadow of things for the substance, small appearances for good similitudes, similitudes for definitions; and even many of those, which we think to be the most solid definitions, are rather expressions of our misguided apprehensions than of the true nature of the things themselves. —Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665)
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		+	== Important links ==
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		+	* http://exploringtheinvisible.com/

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 * Cytokinins act in concert with auxin, another plant growth hormone.
-* oxalic acid dryness - There is a compound called oxalic acid in spinach leaves. When it comes in contact with calcium ions in your saliva, it forms an insoluble crystal that deposits on your teeth
+* '''oxalic acid dryness''' - There is a compound called oxalic acid in spinach leaves. When it comes in contact with calcium ions in your saliva, it forms an insoluble crystal that deposits on your teeth
 * This delightful account by a Singaporean botanist who is the patron of the Gardening Society makes me want to go on a plant tour with these people, even though they might find an elaborate gong set most irresistible - http://www.gardeningsingapore.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53:thailand-foray&catid=36:outings-and-trips&Itemid=53
 * achromatopsia
 * entelechy - (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality / entelechial

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	* http://sebald.wordpress.com/category/andrew-lanyon/		* http://sebald.wordpress.com/category/andrew-lanyon/
	* http://www.accursedshare.org/entry/how-construct-gun-your-own-flesh		* http://www.accursedshare.org/entry/how-construct-gun-your-own-flesh
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		+	* By using a positional cloning technique and molecular markers, McSteen and her colleagues were able to pinpoint the absent gene, which they named vanishing tassel2 or vt2. The gene encodes an enzyme, called tryptophan aminotransferase, important for making auxin, an important growth hormone in plants.
		+	"We know that auxin is critical for determining where cell division and expansion are going to happen to make new organs," said McSteen. "Where auxin is made tells the plant where organs, such as ears, tassels, and leaves, are going to grow."
		+	The researchers confirmed that the corn plants lacking the vt2 gene do produce low levels of the hormone.
		+	The study is part of a larger effort by McSteen to understand the role auxin plays in organogenesis -- the formation of specific organs in plants -- and to shed light on the largely unknown molecular mechanism that fuels auxin's production in plants. In previous work, McSteen discovered another gene, sparse inflorescence1 or spi1, also involved in making auxin in corn.
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		+	* Cytokinins act in concert with auxin, another plant growth hormone.
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		+	* oxalic acid dryness - There is a compound called oxalic acid in spinach leaves. When it comes in contact with calcium ions in your saliva, it forms an insoluble crystal that deposits on your teeth
		+	* This delightful account by a Singaporean botanist who is the patron of the Gardening Society makes me want to go on a plant tour with these people, even though they might find an elaborate gong set most irresistible - http://www.gardeningsingapore.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53:thailand-foray&catid=36:outings-and-trips&Itemid=53
		+	* achromatopsia
		+	* entelechy - (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality / entelechial

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	* taxonomies of plant and animal - http://io9.com/the-bizarre-life-forms-that-cannot-be-categorized-1245804910		* taxonomies of plant and animal - http://io9.com/the-bizarre-life-forms-that-cannot-be-categorized-1245804910
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		+	* http://sebald.wordpress.com/category/andrew-lanyon/
		+	* http://www.accursedshare.org/entry/how-construct-gun-your-own-flesh