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| + | <p>After a gladiator-style fight to the death, we narrowed it down to clotting blood. This was a project that had the most interesting application, design, and human practices. We asked ourselves who we wanted to help, what kind of wounds we wanted to treat, and we thought up ideas for interacting with our community. After discussing different wound sizes and how our project could be applied to each, we decided we would focus mainly on treating medium to large sized wounds. Then, we started designing a construct based around snake venom, and brainstormed “extras”, like cleaning the wound. We researched answers to questions like “How do we keep the venom from clotting all of your blood?”, and “How do we express it in E. coli?” | ||
<p>In the lab, we hope to successfully express our recombinant DNA in E.coli, and produce an effective solution for clotting blood. After that, we hope to develop a fast-acting and effective prototype that will be able to clot pressurized blood being pumped through a simulated wound. If this is accomplished, we’ll attempt to design a tool or delivery system to make sure that we apply the right amount of our system to the wound in order to get the best clot. In addition, we want to test whether or not the clotting factors can move through the body causing an embolism elsewhere. This is something we want to prevent, and need to test if our system can remain local in the wound.</p> | <p>In the lab, we hope to successfully express our recombinant DNA in E.coli, and produce an effective solution for clotting blood. After that, we hope to develop a fast-acting and effective prototype that will be able to clot pressurized blood being pumped through a simulated wound. If this is accomplished, we’ll attempt to design a tool or delivery system to make sure that we apply the right amount of our system to the wound in order to get the best clot. In addition, we want to test whether or not the clotting factors can move through the body causing an embolism elsewhere. This is something we want to prevent, and need to test if our system can remain local in the wound.</p> | ||
Revision as of 01:58, 1 July 2016
Project Description
When our team started meeting, we had many great project ideas. From taking on autoimmune disorders to treating fetal alcohol syndrome. We also considered bacterial fuel cells, terraforming bacteria, biofilm inhibitors, synthetic ivory production, among others.
After a gladiator-style fight to the death, we narrowed it down to clotting blood. This was a project that had the most interesting application, design, and human practices. We asked ourselves who we wanted to help, what kind of wounds we wanted to treat, and we thought up ideas for interacting with our community. After discussing different wound sizes and how our project could be applied to each, we decided we would focus mainly on treating medium to large sized wounds. Then, we started designing a construct based around snake venom, and brainstormed “extras”, like cleaning the wound. We researched answers to questions like “How do we keep the venom from clotting all of your blood?”, and “How do we express it in E. coli?”
In the lab, we hope to successfully express our recombinant DNA in E.coli, and produce an effective solution for clotting blood. After that, we hope to develop a fast-acting and effective prototype that will be able to clot pressurized blood being pumped through a simulated wound. If this is accomplished, we’ll attempt to design a tool or delivery system to make sure that we apply the right amount of our system to the wound in order to get the best clot. In addition, we want to test whether or not the clotting factors can move through the body causing an embolism elsewhere. This is something we want to prevent, and need to test if our system can remain local in the wound.
Our team hopes that our inexpensive and effective technology will be able to help military personnel, disaster victims, and other people affected with severe bleeding survive their ordeals, and have a better quality of life afterwards. In doing so, we will reduce strain on healthcare systems, simplify treatment of major bleeding for EMTs and doctors, and keep families together.
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Styling your wiki
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