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Team:EPF-Lausanne/Brainstorming
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Brainstorming!!!!
Post all of your ideas here! Just a temporary place to share ideas before we get a forum or something else... and maybe also your name, so we know who thought of what if we want to discuss something.
1) Bacteria that could be "integrated" (symbiose?) into plants/vegetables/... to enrich them in nutrients? (Gabriela)
2) Bacteria as a diagnostics tool for still uncurable diseases: sensor for a molecule/hormone/... specific of a disease, and would then release a substance which could create a visible phenotype: could allow early detection of diseases (ideally) (Gabriela)
3) Bacteria for the food-processing industry: they could produce some kind of flavouring substance/vitamin/nutrient which is normally added artificially to a mixture (e.g. a juice...), and could be tuned to produce the substance until the optimal dosage is reached? --> more an industry application (Gabriela)
4) Sound-sensing bacteria: don't know if it's possible or if a native receptor could be "tweaked" for this, but could be useful if we could use sound waves as a triggering signal for e.g. substance release --> going to try to do some research (Gabriela)
5) Bacteria that could bind to a surface making a biofilm and fonctionalize the surface. To make the surface hydrophilic/hydrophobic or change the viscosity of this surface (e.g. with the movement of their flagella..) (Christian)
