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Revision as of 22:32, 3 July 2017
Welcome to UCSC's iGEM Wiki!
Our team is made of 15 motivated interdisciplinary undergraduate students including Biomolecular Engineers, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biologists, Biochemists, and Chemical Engineers. We hope to alleviate a range of burdens associated with global malnutrition and contribute to Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3.
Spirulina
Project Description
UCSC's 2017 iGEM team recognized how global malnutrition amplifies problems for many low income regions; causing economic burden as well as diseases like blindness, disabilities, and anemia. In hopes to address these crippling medical issues, we are creating a decentralized, self-sustaining biological source of nutrition that could be grown cheaply anywhere in the world. Spirulina is a fast growing, nutrient dense cyanobacteria which is already utilized for nutritional supplementation all over the world. The goal for our team is to optimize Spirulina to make it more accessible and fill the nutritional gaps to make it an effective and complete vitamin. This reflects our ultimate goal: To deliver nutrition to underdeveloped regions.
Crowd Funding
If you believe in our cause, please support us! We appreciate any contribution be it ideas, connections, or money. We are 100% donation funded, donate here! We are always looking for creativity and collaborations; if you have an idea to share or a connection with an interested party, please contact us at ucscigem2017@gmail.com
What is iGEM?
Answered by the team in beautiful Santa Cruz
This website is still in progress.
