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− | <h2>Introducing Synthetic biology & BioWatcher at Hsinchu Girls Senior High School</h2> | + | <div class="w3-container w3-padding-64 w3-center"> |
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− | <p class="w3-center" style="font-size:130%;">Bringing the innovative projects in lab to the pubic is a step forward to adapting the ideas into reality. On one hand, practicality of the project is examined. On the other hand, it’s extremely exciting to spread the fun and the possibility
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− | of solving the unsolved using biology. Hsinchu Girls Senior High School collects top students in this city. With passion, we help the clever youngsters to get a glimpse of the amazement synthetic biology brings and hope to bring enthusiastic
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| + | <p class="w3-center" style="font-size: 40px; font-family:Quicksand;"><b>Introducing Synthetic biology & BioWatcher at Hsinchu Girls Senior High School</b></p> |
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| + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> Bringing the innovative projects in lab to the pubic is a step forward to adapting the ideas into reality. On one hand, the practicality of the project is examined. On the other hand, it’s extremely exciting to spread the fun and the possibility of solving the unsolved using biology. Hsinchu Girls Senior High School collects top students in this city. With passion, we help the clever youngsters to get a glimpse of the amazement synthetic biology brings and hope to bring enthusiastic new blood into the field. </p> |
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| + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> On August 14th,we introduced synthetic biology, how it affects the world, how biobricks are built in lab, our project—BioWatcher and iGEM to these brilliant students (Fig. 1). Upon the discussion about BioWatcher, the students were so excited and many questions were raised. </p> |
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− | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:130%;">Since our project highly concerns health issue, we aim to raise public awareness about the importance of early diagnostics and early treatment. At the end of the session, we gave a quick survey about their blood test frequencies. It turned
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| + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> Since our project highly concerns health issue, we aim to raise public awareness about the importance of early diagnosis and early treatment. At the end of the session, we gave a quick survey about their blood test frequencies. It turned out that, as expected, only a few of them get blood tests regularly in hospitals and further confirm the necessity of BioWatcher.</p> |
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| + | <p class="w3-center" style="font-size: 20px; font-family:Quicksand;"><b>Fig. 1. Introducing iGEM and our project to Hsinchu Girls Senior students.</b></font></p> |
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− | <p class="w3-center">Paying our maximum effort to promote synthetic biology, iGEM and the project of our team, we hope to introduce the fun and potential in biology to everyone and bring new enthusiastic blood into the biology field in Taiwan, where bio-industry | + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> Paying our maximum effort to promote synthetic biology, iGEM and the project of our team, we hope to introduce the fun and potential in biology to everyone and bring new enthusiastic blood into the biology field in Taiwan, where bio-industry is less popular than semiconductor industry. </p> |
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| + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> TsingHua Bauhinia Day (campus fair) is the day when high school students from all over the country visit our campus to learn about all departments. On May 12th, paying our maximum effort to promote synthetic biology, iGEM and the project of our team, we introduce the fun and potential in biology to high school students and hope to bring new enthusiastic blood into the biology field in Taiwan, where bio-industry is less popular than the semiconductor industry(Fig. 1). </p> |
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| + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> It was quite disappointed at first when very few students showed their interest in biology. However, as we vigorously presenting our project with passion, the fact that biologists can create plenty of fun experiments in labs attracted groups of people to gather around. Our audiences on this day were not limited to students but parents and any relatives that came along, all of whom contributed to a survey we collected. With rising interest and curiosity in synthetic biology and iGEM, many questions were raised (the most frequently asked questions are listed below) and, as a result, we successfully promoted iGEM, synthetic biology and gave publicity of BioWatcher and idea. While we collected public views toward |
| + | BioWatcher, we hope, in this way, to raise awareness of both public and individual health condition and appeal to them the importance of early diagnosis and early treatment.</p> |
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− | <p class="w3-center">TsingHua Bauhinia Day (campus fair) is the day when high school students from all over the country visit our campus to learn about all departments.
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| + | <p class="w3-center" style="font-size: 20px; font-family:Quicksand;"><b>Fig. 1. Introducing synthetic biology and iGEM to the people on Tsing Hua Bauhunua Day.</b></font></p> |
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| + | <p class="w3-center" style="font-size: 25px; font-family:Quicksand;"><b>1. What’s the significance of our project?</b></p> |
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− | <br> **Soluble ligand-receptor interaction The existing known ligand-receptor interactions, such as notch signaling pathway, is only applicable on insoluble ligands. With our design on reporter cell, the receptors can detect both soluble and | + | <p class="w3-justify" style="font-size:22px";> |
| + | <br> <b>Soluble ligand-receptor interaction :</b> |
| + | <br> The existing known ligand-receptor interactions, such as notch signaling pathway, is only applicable on insoluble ligands. With our design on reporter cell, the receptors can detect both soluble and |
| insoluble ligands. | | insoluble ligands. |
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− | <br> **Wide application Before this system can be used in human, it can be applied widely in lab experiment animal models, such as zebrafish. The autonomous report system will be a convenient tool for scientists in qualitative measurements. | + | <br><b> Wide application : </b> |
| + | <br>Before this system can be used in human, it can be applied widely in lab experiment animal models, such as zebrafish. The autonomous report system will be a convenient tool for scientists in qualitative measurements. |
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− | <br> **Customized detector The detection module on the reporter cell is nanobody, functional antibody variable domain fragment. The programmable nanobodies on the reporter cells can be customized into detecting specific ligands. The range | + | <br><b> Customized detector :</b> |
− | of application of this autonomous reporting system is simultaneously growing with the expansion of nanobody library. Reference: Pieter Deschaght, Ana Paula Vintém, Marc Logghe,Miguel Conde et al. Large Diversity of Functional Nanobodies
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− | <br> **Non-invasiveness To increase convenience in blood test for all users, we establish a non-invasive biofactor measurement system with the help of autonomous reporter cells and bioluminescence-detecting smartwatches. In this case, the | + | The detection module on the reporter cell is nanobody, functional antibody variable domain fragment. The programmable nanobodies on the reporter cells can be customized into detecting specific ligands. The range of application of this autonomous reporting system is simultaneously growing with the expansion of nanobody library. Reference: Pieter Deschaght, Ana Paula Vintém, Marc Logghe, Miguel Conde et al. Large Diversity of Functional Nanobodiesfrom a Camelid Immune Library Revealed by an Alternative Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data(2017) |
− | blood test can be taken more frequently and easily at home, which will increase health awareness and transform the catchphrase-- “early diagnosis early treatment” into live.
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− | <br> **Bioluminescence >>drug delivery The induced pathway can be interchangeable. At the moment, BioWatcher is designed to output autonomous bioluminescence signal. The system can be altered into therapeutic application when the bioluminescence | + | <br><b> Non-invasiveness :</b> |
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| + | To increase convenience in the blood test for all users, we establish a non-invasive biofactor measurement system with the help of autonomous reporter cells and bioluminescence-detecting smartwatches. In this case, the blood test can be taken more frequently and easily at home, which will increase health awareness and transform the catchphrase-- “early diagnosis early treatment” into live. |
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| + | <br><b> Bioluminescence >>drug delivery :</b> |
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| + | The induced pathway can be interchangeable. At the moment, BioWatcher is designed to output autonomous bioluminescence signal. The system can be altered into therapeutic applications when the bioluminescence |
| signal is changed into drug delivery. With boundless creativeness, the application diversity of this system is limitless. | | signal is changed into drug delivery. With boundless creativeness, the application diversity of this system is limitless. |
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− | Yes! Current blood test is the most direct approach for everyone to learn about his/her bodily health. However, it’s rarely performed due to its several drawbacks, invasiveness, time-consuming procedure and the fact that it can only be carried out with | + | Yes! The current blood test is the most direct approach for everyone to learn about his/her bodily health. However, it’s rarely performed due to its several drawbacks, invasiveness, time-consuming procedure and the fact that it can only be carried out with |
| the help of medical professions. Although new smart wearable devices attempt to deal with these problems by offering noninvasive measurement and instant report, what the trackers can tell the users, such as heart rate, steps taken and | | the help of medical professions. Although new smart wearable devices attempt to deal with these problems by offering noninvasive measurement and instant report, what the trackers can tell the users, such as heart rate, steps taken and |
| calories burned, are not direct and useful indicators for early-stage diagnosis. | | calories burned, are not direct and useful indicators for early-stage diagnosis. |
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− | <br> BioWatcher aims to overcome the disadvantages of both blood test and current smart wearables and combine the advantages of both: using noninvasive measurement wearables providing instant report to directly assessing disease indicators. | + | <br> BioWatcher aims to overcome the disadvantages of both blood test and current smart wearables and combine the advantages of both: using noninvasive measurement wearables providing instant reports to directly assessing disease indicators. |
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− | Not until the experiment can successfully prove feasibility will we be able to give a confirmed answer. However, even at the worst scenario--failing to apply this system in humans-- this design can be widely apply on other experiment animal model. BioWatcher | + | Not until the experiment can successfully prove feasibility will we be able to give a confirmed answer. However, even at the worst scenario--failing to apply this system in humans-- this design can be widely applied to other experimental animal model. BioWatcher |
− | is going to be a great help to scientists and bring them immense convenience and efficiency in lab. | + | is going to be a great help to scientists and bring them immense convenience and efficiency in labs. |
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− | where hundreds of students and visitors sit, hangout and pass by everyday. We hope to share with as much people as we can the fun and potential that biology can bring into the future. </p>
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