Team:Jilin China/HP/1

Situation & Views


Human Practices

  • As the development of basic research, China has become the world’s largest producer of scientific research articles[p1]. However, the number of successful technology transformation is limited. Facing transformation difficulties, basic researches are sometimes far away from applications or benefits. Also, in current situation in China, the investment in basic researches can not meet the requirements of the researches. How does science contribute to technology? How does it promote production? Our project this year, in foundational advance track, is facing similar difficulties. The scientific capabilities are not just been shown on the paper or the laboratorial data. It should be geared to the needs of society, especially, for basic researches. In order to guide our project and give us reliable solutions to the current scientific transformation, we made a survey research based on the data gathered from the yearbook of science and technology of China.

  • Data from Yearbook:

    这里有个表，还有figure

    China’s spending on research and development has steadily increased while the investment in basic research mounting up followed a similar trend. There is no significant correlation, however, between the share of basic research invest and year.

  • 1. TOUR OF THE DIARY FACTORY

    Hoping to know who our potential users is, we did some research and consulted relevant teachers about how temperature regulation is applied in industry and manufacture.

    Here, according to our research, a form illustrating production and required temperature is shown.

    On the basis of the first batch of statistics: RNA thermosensors response to temperature at around 37-42°C, our thermosensors may fit to need of yogurt production. Then we visited the Ground Dairy Industry Co.,Ltd, the biggest local diary products supplier in Changchun.

    After visiting the manufacturing shop and interviewing the technical staff, we realized the sensing section of RNA thermosensors we set before is quite fit to the product requirement. However，they’re not quite satisfied with the intensity and sensitivity of our thermosensors. Then we decided to make continuous intensity intervals and sensitivity for users. With the help of Model team, our toolkit was improved into SynRT toolkit 1.0. (link)

    Bonus Track

    Our initial idea of this tour is to find an output of our toolkit, and we did find out that our kit could be useful in future fermentation process. However, to our surprise, the technicist there also told us, ‘ If you can lower down the temperature of initial fermentation, it would bring huge economic profits.’ From the point of view, we believed that our toolkit can realize this temperature shift.

    Compared with our Positive Control, which turns into open conformation at around 42°C, some of thermosensors in our toolkit can realized the same purpose at lower temperature. The data has been shown below.