iGEM Project Ideas that Never Made it

Christmas Bush

Make an evergreen with berries that glow during the cold night.

Banana-less banana-flavoured yougurt.

Lettuce that makes its own oil and vinegar.

Non-pathogenic bacteria that kill off E. coli and Samonella on meat.

Non-pathogentic bacteria that secreate proteases to tenderise meat.

Bacteria whichh flouresce in a fractal pattern.

Gut bacteria that over produce compounds which trigger cessation of eating in humans (called NAPEs).

Some kind of vectors that cause organisms in co-culture to grow in lock-step.

Or vanilla-flavoured pears.

Bacteria to reduce stinky kitty poop.

Underarm deoderant based on killing the little suckers.

Monitor oxygen staturation, nitrogen content, ammonia and other such aquarium distrupting materials to help people not kill fish.

Fight specifig animal illnesses with bacteria.

Something to make them survive better in the fridge.

Something to interfere with quorum sensing of endogenous organisms in the mouth so that they do not produce biofilms and therefore plaque.

Organisms which produce biofilm in the presence of iron to create a protective biofilm as an undercoating on a car (instead of oil).

Create a fusion of chemotaxis and quorum-sensing to create social bacteria.

A trans-fat descruction method. Ideally, working in the body.

Synthetic antibody production in bacteria or yeast.

Sea sponges can produce glass fibres. Move those genes to the epidermis of a fruit so it can can itself it its own jar.