Wednesday, November 24, 2010

BacillaFilla posted on dogo news by Meera Dolasia

After an earthquake, usually a couple of buildings are torn down to make new buildings because of cracks. It uses alot of money to destroy buildings and also gives off 5% of co2 emisions. However, a group of university students have got a genius idea when entering the International Genetically Engineered Machines contest. They created BacillaFilla, a genetically engineered form of bacteria. What the students did, was they got a commonly found soil bacteria and genetically engineered it to make it germinate (divide and divide) if they came in contact with chemicals found in broken cement. They also made germs "smarter" by making them go into the smallest of cracks by themselves. Then, they group up and start doing their jobs. One type fixes up the concrete, another reinforces it and the last one binds it up together. The team went home with gold and in the not-to-distant-future, we will probably be seeing "Fixed with BacillaFilla" on were broken buildings

1 comment:

  1. Nice article! Is BacillaFilla going to last forever or then is going to break?

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