Team:Uppsala/Engagement
Engagement
With the purpose of reaching out to different areas of the community and spreading knowledge about synthetic biology and our project we have cooperated with the Swedish Makerspace association. We have also presented our project at several events.
The CRISPR-Cas System
CRISPR-Cas systems are bacterial adaptive immunity systems. Functional CRISPR-loci are present in about 45% of known bacteria and the systems protects them from foreign DNA, for example bacteriophages, that might harm them. The basis for the systems is that short sequences of foreign DNA are incorporated into the hosts cell’s own genome, which later can be used for recognizing and eliminating the same threat if it reoccurs. Since the changes are made on gene level, immunity can be passed on to the offspring and thereby improve the fitness of the whole strain.
Boop
CRISPR-Cas systems are bacterial adaptive immunity systems. Functional CRISPR-loci are present in about 45% of known bacteria and the systems protects them from foreign DNA, for example bacteriophages, that might harm them. The basis for the systems is that short sequences of foreign DNA are incorporated into the hosts cell’s own genome, which later can be used for recognizing and eliminating the same threat if it reoccurs. Since the changes are made on gene level, immunity can be passed on to the offspring and thereby improve the fitness of the whole strain.
