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          <p>Inspired by the heart and its rhythm, our team sought to aid those of us who are in need of continuous drug monitoring. To achieve this goal we transformed ourselves into real dance instructors as we introduced a continuous rhythm in HEK cells. </p>
 
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          <p>The story of our team starts with 4 bioscience engineers who were eager to expand their knowledge and learn vital practical skills. Almost 1 year later they were joined by 9 motivated students and so the Avengers… I mean the 2017 KULeuven iGEM team was formed. </p>
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          <p>Located just 30 kilometers from Brussels lies the educational beating heart of Belgium, the city of Leuven. It is home to the KULeuven, one of the oldest universities in Europe. Allow us to tell you some fun facts about Leuven. <br>
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Fact number 3: Every year in oktober there is a major sport event where the different student fraternities battle it out on the racing track. The fraternity who ran the highest number of laps after 24 hours wins this prestigious competition.
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            <div class="el_paragraph">Finally, we aim to <b>influence the pace</b> by varying concentrations of biological effectors. Our main focus is establishing a new form of <b>therapeutic drug monitoring</b>.</div>
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Learn more about how our team sought to put ourselves in the lives of the patients we try to help. You will learn about the stories of organ transplant patients as well as epilepsy patients and how their stories gave us conformation that our project is indeed valuable. The ethical aspect of our project is described as well. 
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Learn more about how our team improved the project by talking to specialists. Their years of experience and opinions pushed us to adapt our project to match these critical insights. You will learn more about these specialists and their background.
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Learn more about how our team devoted substantial effort in teaching students from elementary schools and high schools about biology. With adapted programs for both groups we tried to enrich the scientific knowledge of these young students while showing them the beauty of synthetic biology.
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Learn more about how our team reached out to the general public as well as other iGEM teams. You will learn about our blog in the scientific magazine EOS, the European practice jamboree and much more.
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Revision as of 16:14, 29 October 2017

Project

HEKcite

Inspired by the heart and its rhythm, our team sought to aid those of us who are in need of continuous drug monitoring. To achieve this goal we transformed ourselves into real dance instructors as we introduced a continuous rhythm in HEK cells.

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Team

The story of our team starts with 4 bioscience engineers who were eager to expand their knowledge and learn vital practical skills. Almost 1 year later they were joined by 9 motivated students and so the Avengers… I mean the 2017 KULeuven iGEM team was formed.

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KU LEUVEN

Located just 30 kilometers from Brussels lies the educational beating heart of Belgium, the city of Leuven. It is home to the KULeuven, one of the oldest universities in Europe. Allow us to tell you some fun facts about Leuven.

Fact number 1: Did you know that Leuven is famously home to the biggest bar in the world?

Fact number 2: Around 1/3rd of the population of Leuven is a student at the university or works there. During summer, the streets of Leuven do indeed look emptier.

Fact number 3: Every year in oktober there is a major sport event where the different student fraternities battle it out on the racing track. The fraternity who ran the highest number of laps after 24 hours wins this prestigious competition.

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Human Practices

Silver:
Learn more about how our team sought to put ourselves in the lives of the patients we try to help. You will learn about the stories of organ transplant patients as well as epilepsy patients and how their stories gave us conformation that our project is indeed valuable. The ethical aspect of our project is described as well.

Gold:
Learn more about how our team improved the project by talking to specialists. Their years of experience and opinions pushed us to adapt our project to match these critical insights. You will learn more about these specialists and their background.

Education:
Learn more about how our team devoted substantial effort in teaching students from elementary schools and high schools about biology. With adapted programs for both groups we tried to enrich the scientific knowledge of these young students while showing them the beauty of synthetic biology.

Public engagement:
Learn more about how our team reached out to the general public as well as other iGEM teams. You will learn about our blog in the scientific magazine EOS, the European practice jamboree and much more.

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Contact

Inspired by the heart and its rhythm, our team sought to aid those of us who are in need of continuous drug monitoring. To achieve this goal we transformed ourselves into real dance instructors as we introduced a continuous rhythm in HEK cells.

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