The Valencian universities say in the iGEM with a disinfection of water project
June 23, 2011
This pioneer group, is also owner of a large cluster of awards and recognitions, including a third place the 2009 pageant.
The choice of the Valencian students in their sixth participation will be based on a biological system to disinfect contaminated water, an idea which would have major future applications. In this sense, the coordinators of the Valencian University group have pointed out that "this liquid is a very abundant in land resource, but that does not can be consumed directly by humans due to possible contamination with pathogens." "This occurs most often in countries where it is not possible to purify the water easily proliferate uncontrollably sometimes lethal disease".
This work, in its initial phase, seeks to insert into biological vectors, by means of Molecular Biology, one of the lines of defence present in unicellular and multicellular. These cells are capable of acting as "agents of control" and eliminate the microorganisms in the water. The most important thing with this method, indicated by the Valencian people, is that "own defence mechanisms, capable of eliminating unwanted pathogens, are also effective against the same cells that they produce, and the water will be free of harmful organisms and biological control system itself".
Students who will develop this project this summer, hope to match the excellent results harvested so far by the Spanish team Intertech.
