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Solving today's challenging problems using breakthrough technology

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Its time for team based project for my Fall class at SJSU again. It requires a great deal of passion and team effort to do something that has not done before. I always encourage my students to think big and solve a problem which has not been solved before. And trust me, there are plenty of problems which might have solutions but either they are not uniquely addressing the problem or they can't be afforded by the masses. Anyway, here again I am posting some ideas that you can research and brainstorm to come up on a problem statement. 1. Barcode of Life (DNA Barcoding) DNA barcoding is a molecular-based identification system that aims to identify biological specimens, and to assign them to a given species.  DNA based identification for multi cellular life is an emerging concept and scientists from 25 countries have got together to create a database of DNA barcodes (BOLD) to solve multi-faceted problems.  Here are some potential use cases: a) Timber and wild life traff...