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Annexation!

Alzheimer has annexed XNA! The international community will not stand for this!

Alzheimer has annexed Turing Machines! The international community will not stand for this!

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Human Practices Pre-Brainstorming:

#Safety Mechanism#

Any safety mechanism/self termination system will be heavily selected against.

Production of toxins that kill neighboring cells. Cells that fail to undergo suicide will be eliminated by their more competent neighbors.

Transfer crucial genes into shift register. The deactivation of the register and it's associated gene will lead to cell death.

Prevent logic failures by making every state after a critical threshold program for death.

Make the forward signal a signal from cell division, advancing the state with every generation of cell division. 

#Vaccine#

Immunizations can have their effect maximized by 1: having a larger imune response (duration and quantity of antgen), 2: have multiple antigens for a given disease, and 3: have only one antigen at a time (apparently if you have too many antigen, the immune system only deals with a few). Our project is perfect for this. I read somewhere about implanting a colony of microbes in a physical barrier that prevented cells from getting through but not molecules. We could have a colony of yeast (or whatever is the easiest to kill should it escape) that produces a large set of antigens over a long time
period, having the effect of many successive shots over a long period of time, then self destruct when its done. On top of this, any drug treatment that has multiple stages of therapy use this to try and reduce the amount of procedures and drugs needed.

Counting circuit. One injection/implantation. Over time, the implanted colony cycles through the antibodies, increasing effectiveness of immunization by exposing the body to only one antigen at a time.

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Brainstorming:

Logic Gates/better visuals needed. Get someone on it in the near future.

Need alternating advance molecules, or a shift register to alternate so that machine doesn't advance too many states.

Need to look into biological shift registers, and their ability to resist changing states multiple times in the presence of the signal.

iGEM meet:

Ron's ideas:

Pulse generator switching on S_even and S_odd alternately. Need to look into how this could be achieved, possibly in a simpler way than the toggle switch.

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