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14/10/2013

TU/e team reached iGEM finals

TU/e students have made it to the finals of iGEM, an international competition for synthetic biology for which student teams create biological building blocks and inject those into live cells. Their MRiGEM project, which uses a bacterium to visualize tumors under an MRI scanner, made it into the European top 18, thus securing the team a spot in the world championships at MIT in Boston early November.

by Redactie Cursor

The Eindhoven team, under supervision of dr.ir. Tom de Greef and dr. Maarten Merkx (both of the Department of Biomedical Engineering), developed bacteria that can be used to visualize tumors in an MRI scanner. The students injected a piece of DNA they developed themselves into an E. coli bacterium. As a result, in a hypoxic environment – which often occurs around tumors – the micro-organism produces a protein that’s contrasting on MRI images.

(Source: TU/e Press Team)

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