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- | principle of our project is the development of a novel reporter system. We
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- | developed a biological system which is a reporter system more agile and
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- | Although the currently present reporter systems bear many incapabilities and
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- | large molecules such as cellulose, hemicellulose </span><img width=352
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- | '>and lignin to use as a source of nutrition and continue their
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- | the remediation of dyes. If enzymes could be used to breakdown dyes, than it
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- | would be possible to form a biological reporter system that would be built
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- | around the breakdown of dyes instead of synthesizing it, which would in turn
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- | speed up the process, make it easier to observe changes and give the ability to
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- | mediate the integration of the method to bioremediation systems. With this
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>PRESENT REPORTER SYSTEMS</span></p>
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- | align=left hspace=12><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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- | "Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>Commonly used reporter
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- | genes that induce visually identifiable characteristics usually involve
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- | jellyfish </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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- | style='color:#0B0080; '>green fluorescent protein</span></a></span><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#252525; '> (GFP), which causes </span><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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- | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)"><span style='color:#0B0080;
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- | '>cells</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '> that express it to glow green under blue light, the enzyme </span><span
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- | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferase"><span style='color:#0B0080;
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- | '>luciferase</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>, which catalyzes a reaction with </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | '>luciferin</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '> to produce light, and the red fluorescent protein from the gene dsRed.
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- | The </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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- | #0B0080; '>GUS</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '> gene has been commonly used in plants but luciferase and </span><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#252525; '> are becoming more common</span><span
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- | color:#252525; '>A common reporter in bacteria is the </span><span
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- | '>E. coli</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:152%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '> gene, which encodes the protein </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | style='color:#0B0080; '>chloramphenicol acetyltransferase</span></a></span><span
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- | color:#252525; '> (CAT) gene, which confers resistance to the
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- | '>Most of the reporter systems are based on the use of visual
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- | "Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>A prominent reporter
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- | system that is the green fluorescent protein, a protein that does not carry a </span><img
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- | color:#252525; '>complex and long sequence structure that is
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- | color:#252525; '>[ii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="#_edn3"
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- | font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>[iii]</span></span></span></a>
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- | In </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>, and many animals have been created that express GFP as a
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- | '>viral vector</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>, or cell transformation. To date, the GFP gene has been introduced and
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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- | '>Yeast</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>), plant, fly, and mammalian cells, including human. </span><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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- | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chalfie"><span style='color:#0B0080;
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- | '>Martin Chalfie</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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- | "Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Shimomura"><span
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- | style='color:#0B0080; '>Osamu Shimomura</span></a></span><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#252525; '>, and </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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- | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Y._Tsien"><span style='color:#0B0080;
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- | '>Roger Y. Tsien</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '> were awarded the 2008 </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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- | style='color:#0B0080; '>Nobel Prize in Chemistry</span></a></span><span
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- | color:#252525; '> on 10 October 2008 for their discovery and
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- | development of the green fluorescent protein.</span><span style='font-size:
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- | 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525'> </span></p>
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:152%'><span style='font-size:
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- | '>The GFP reporter systems which started a new era in
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- | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chalfie"><span style='color:#0B0080;
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- | '>Martin Chalfie</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:152%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#252525; '>, </span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:152%;font-family:
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- | "Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0B0080; '>Osamu Shimomura</span></u><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:152%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#252525; '>, and </span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:152%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0B0080; '>Roger Y. Tsien</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:152%;
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- | font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; '> are still widely used
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- | today. GFP reporter systems which can be used in many processes ranging from
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- | binding of a protein to the cell membrane of a cell, still command great
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- | exponentially increases the development in scince. Reducing the time allocated
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- | in science research. Currently, the issue of time has become more prominent.
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- | The incubation process following cloning protocols can take up to 16 hours,
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- | significantly increasing the time required to carry out projects hence
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- | restricting the conduction of many of these projects. If an example was to be
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- | given to the current problem, the time restriction prevents the use of
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- | need to give immidiate response. It is not possible to state that this problem
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- | chemicals to operate or have too complex systems preventing implementation</span></p>
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:152%'><span style='font-size:
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:152%'><span style='font-size:
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- | 16.0pt;line-height:152%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; '>OUR
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- | MODULE</span></p>
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | '>Reporter systems carry great significance in the world of
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- | biology. As previously mentioned, the problems that currently exist in the
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- | development of reporter systems slow down the development of Biology,
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- | specifically synthetic biology and genetics.</span></p>
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#222222; '>We aimed to overcome the issue of time with our
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- | system. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | '>We had to abandon certain project ideas due to the
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- | insufficiency of the available time that inspired us to find a possible way of
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- | overcoming this issue which would open doors to many scientists interested in this
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- | area.</span></p>
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | '>Our focus was on the GFP reporter system as it had been used
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- | numerous times by scientists worldwide and therefore carried great attention in
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- | reporter systems. If the issue of time was to be tackled, it had to address the
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- | issue in the GFP reporter system. The report system had to respond in a shorter
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- | period of time if progress was to be accelerated. It was not crucial to see a
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- | 100% complete result, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;
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- | font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222; '>even the
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- | glimpse of a change would have been enough for our system.</span><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | '>. After observing the currently present GFP reporter systems,
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- | it came to our notice that the bacteria try to produce an inexisting substance
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- | from scratch, step by step and the presence of the substance can only be
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- | recognized after the substance has reached a certain concentration. If the process
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- | was to be reversed, however, it would take a significantly reduced amount of
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- | time. After reaching this state of recognition, we decided that the breakdown
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- | of the color instead of its production would be a lot more agile. Allthe enzyme
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- | produced would be capable of breaking down color in a short time interval. The
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- | exponentially increasing levels of enzyme presence would increase the enzyme
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- | activity, hence reducing the time of the process even more.</span></p>
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- |
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#222222; '>There is another advantage to this new system,
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- | while the necessity of the colored substance reaching a certain density was a
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- | disadvantage in the previous system, in the new system even the change in the
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- | hue of the color would prove that our system was functioning and the density
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- | issue would then become an advantage. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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- | line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; '>The only
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- | external addition to the system required is the addition of a specific dye. The
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- | system therefore bears the potential to eliminate 16-hour long waiting times
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- | and makes life easier for scientists.</span></p>
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- |
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#222222; '>If our goal within this project was
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- | accomplished it would be a revolution for biological reactions. Who wouldn't
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- | want to decrease the required time by 75%?</span></p>
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- |
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
| |
- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#222222; '>Our project has the potential to be adapted for
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- | other areas of science because of its relation with color. When we think of the
| |
- | importance of bioremediation processes, to decrease the harm of chemical waste
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- | to the ecology of the Earth, these alternative systems are important. It won't
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- | be hard to integrate this system.</span></p>
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- |
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- | <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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- | margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:200%'><span
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- | style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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- | color:#222222; '>If we are able to optimize and develop the
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- | steps of our project professionally, we will be able to open a new door within
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- | the science of biology.</span></p>
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