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Team:SDU-Denmark
From 2009.igem.org
University of Southern Denmark
Welcome to our wiki. Right now we're in the process of designing it, but be sure to check it out later. For the Jamboree, we are trying to get e.coli to express the synthetic protein RIP, which has been shown to inhibit quorum-sensing in other bacteria.
For now you can read more about us, at our blog igem.sdu.dk.
About our project
Bacto Bandage
A raising number of bacteria are resistant to antibiotics and thereby becoming increasingly difficult to treat.
Staphylococcus aureus is mainly harmless, commensal and found on the skin of 30% of healthy people, but is also the most common cause of staphylococcal infections. Often developing in post-operational wounds, with a growing number of resistant strains making it hard to treat, s. aureus is becoming a major threat to patients.
Here we propose making a new type of bandage which inhibits the spread of s. aureus in wounds. By using synthetic biology, we are trying to create non-pathogenic strains of bacteria, which express quorum-quenching proteins, hindering biofilm formation and spread.
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