Team:Edinburgh/Project

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University of Edinburgh 2008 iGEM Team

Team Members:

Students:

Andrew Hall, Adler Ma, Antonia Mayer, Omar Gammoh, Wenhong (Tina) Li, Xing (Ariel) He, Zejun Yan.


Main instructors:

Chris French, Alistair Elfick, Hongwu Ma

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Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this is the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)

Your team picture


Home The Team The Project Parts Submitted to the Registry Modeling Notebook

(Or you can choose different headings. But you must have a team page, a project page, and a notebook page.)


Saving the World

"Cellulose is the most abundant form of fixed carbon, with 100,000,000,000 tons produced in cell walls by plants each year." [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1196/annals.1419.026 (Wilson, 2008)]


Nowadays the world-wide food shortage is becoming more and more important. As we can image, converting cellulose to starch will be one of the most sufficient ways to solve this problem .

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