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Alberta university students are already gearing up for the 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition<\/strong> in Boston. <\/p>\n

Justin Vyger<\/strong> is a 4th year biochemistry student at the University of Lethbridge. <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Last year his iGEM team won gold for a little organism they created that degrade a toxic chemical in oil sands tailings ponds. <\/p>\n

This year the University of Lethbridge team is taking that process once step further. <\/p>\n

JUSTIN VYGER: <\/strong>What we focused on last year is there’s one chemical compound that other toxic compounds can be degraded into. So we decided if we could get that one chemical degraded by an organism and get that working, we might be able to target the other compounds. So now what we’re doing is focusing on those compounds that we first started out to degrade. So your polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH’s which are very tough to degrade, they’re very toxic. We’ve got some cool organisms we’re working with and we’re mix and matching pieces from them and putting them into our engineered organism from last year.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Justin Vyger and his iGEM team are also producing a movie that will accompany their submission to the iGEM competiton in Boston. <\/p>\n

Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n

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Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-08-04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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