Team:Valencia/Project/Results

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Achievements

We have:

1. Designed and constructed the first Lightning Cell Display (iLCD), which is able to produce an animated image of up to 144 pixels from a given electrical stimulus.
2. Built the first Light Emitting Cell (LEC), opening the gate to the use of electricity as a signal mediator in Synthetic Biology works.
3. Precisely characterized the LEC, studying the factors that can be tuned (like voltage and shock time) and proving in a wide range of experiments that aequorin-engineered yeast can be stimulated with electric current.
4. Advanced Bioelectronics enabling bidirectional communication of monocellular organisms and electronic components.
   
   
5. Built a fast and responsive 'digital imaging' system based on living cells.
   
   
6. 10 seconds refreshing time.
   
   
7. Characterized a new part: BBa_K222000 (Aequorin).
   
   
8. We have developed an experimental system which is able to apply a precise voltage (between 0V-24V) during a precise interval of time (with a precision up to 20 ms.) controlled by a computer. The experimental device was integrated with a continuous luminometer in order to measure the light emission as a function of these parameters.
   
   
9. Developped an impressive Human Practices part of the project. Resulting in the publication of the book Sins, Ethics and Biology
   
   
10. Helped TUDelft and NTU-Singapore whith their respectives surveys. We have also helped to Paris Team answering their questions about their iPhone application