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<h4 class="intro">Here at Ryerson, innovative solutions to real-world problems are our specialty. One of the coolest problem-solving chemicals we know of are dyes, because they have such an awesome range of applications. The goal of our project is to make microscopic factories, to create lots of dyes! In this case, the dye of interest is heme, which you may have heard in the word "hemoglobin" (which you find in your blood), as heme is a constituent of hemoglobin. By now, you must be wondering what we mean by "microscopic factories". We are saying that we are going to turn colonies of cyanobacteria into dye-excreting microorganisms! Thats right, our genetically modified cyanobacteria will create lots and lots of heme. Learn more about dyes, cell factories, cyanobacteria, and the rest of our project below.</h4>
 
  
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<h4 class="intro">With the human population continuously increasing, the need for renewable and sustainable sources of energy is also increasing. A study projected that in 2050, we will need 30 trillion watts to accommodate human life on earth. In 2005, we used 13 trillion watts, 85% of which came from fossil fuels.
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<h4 class="intro">The sun has been powering the growth of organisms on earth for centuries now, from plants to algae, to even humans! With such a great resource at hand, it only makes sense to avail it. Here at Ryerson, we are trying to tackle our energy consumption problem by looking to organic dyes. </h4>
  
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<h4 class="intro">There’s a vast variety of organic dyes, and they serve many purposes. Organic dyes have many real-world applications such as being used for medical probes or serving as pigments for industrial purposes. One of the greatest feature of these dyes is that they can be made by organisms on earth. The only problem? The synthesis of these dyes is very time-consuming and expensive. But the Ryerson iGEM 2016 team is out to tackle this challenge, by creating a DyeStuff factory with cyanobacteria as the home and the sun as its power.
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With the human population continuously increasing, the need for renewable and sustainable sources of energy is also increasing. A study projected that in 2050, we will need 30 trillion watts to accommodate human life on earth. In 2005, we used 13 trillion watts, 85% of which came from fossil fuels.

Let's look to the sun

The sun has been powering the growth of organisms on earth for centuries now, from plants to algae, to even humans! With such a great resource at hand, it only makes sense to avail it. Here at Ryerson, we are trying to tackle our energy consumption problem by looking to organic dyes.

There’s a vast variety of organic dyes, and they serve many purposes. Organic dyes have many real-world applications such as being used for medical probes or serving as pigments for industrial purposes. One of the greatest feature of these dyes is that they can be made by organisms on earth. The only problem? The synthesis of these dyes is very time-consuming and expensive. But the Ryerson iGEM 2016 team is out to tackle this challenge, by creating a DyeStuff factory with cyanobacteria as the home and the sun as its power.