Team:NYMU-Taipei

Our Institute
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Project Summary
The title of our project: ViroCatcher
 * The Fact: Although traditional medical treatments for viral diseases usually have a high specificity, the treatments will likely fail to cure diseases once viruses mutate.
 * Our Motivation: Is there any chance to create an universal solution to fight against viral diseases?
 * Our Strategy: Fight inconsistency with consistency. Counter changing viruses with specific binding.
 * Our Objective: Use engineered bacteria which are safe for the bloodstream to bind and remove many kinds of viruses.
 * Our Method: Design bacteria that can catch viruses using constant binding regions between viruses and viral receptors/specific anti-viral antibodies.

Contributions

 * Designed and Built more than 30 new standard Biobricks
 * Obtained human cDNA clones of CD4, CCR5,αv integrin, CAR receptor
 * Characterized the Promoters in the Biobrick
 * Verified the function of our oscillator
 * Cloned the gene of anchoring protein C_IGAP
 * Cloned targeted viral proteins for Biobricks and validated
 * Designed and synthesized scFV specific antibody