Team:Mingdao
Project Motivation & Description
It all begins with a news we saw on TV.The news is about an old man who had a conflict with a police. At night, driving a car, the old man was stopped by a police and he asked the old man to pull over and have an alcohol examination. However, the old man refused to take the test and started shouting at the police. It occurred to us that the testing method used these days seems to contain a few problems and wasn’t that reliable to the public. Therefore, we started to aim at finding a better way to proceed the alcohol test. Here’s how our project was born. First, we did quite a lot of research about how alcohol tests work and tried to find out the way alcohol reacts with the proteins and chemicals in our bodies. After few weeks of working and a long discussion, we came up with the idea of using the method that blood glucose meters equipped. We decided to oxidize alcohol and produce hydrogen peroxide to cause exchanging of electrons then detect it by blood glucose meters. Then, we conducted a survey of whether people will be more willing to take alcohol tests if the results are more accurate, and the results support our project.Thus, we believe the way will finally work out and can reflect the alcohol content in our bodies better.
Welcome to iGEM 2016!
Your team has been approved and you are ready to start the iGEM season!
Before you start:
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Styling your wiki
You may style this page as you like or you can simply leave the style as it is. You can easily keep the styling and edit the content of these default wiki pages with your project information and completely fulfill the requirement to document your project.
While you may not win Best Wiki with this styling, your team is still eligible for all other awards. This default wiki meets the requirements, it improves navigability and ease of use for visitors, and you should not feel it is necessary to style beyond what has been provided.
Wiki template information
We have created these wiki template pages to help you get started and to help you think about how your team will be evaluated. You can find a list of all the pages tied to awards here at the Pages for awards link. You must edit these pages to be evaluated for medals and awards, but ultimately the design, layout, style and all other elements of your team wiki is up to you!
Editing your wiki
On this page you can document your project, introduce your team members, document your progress and share your iGEM experience with the rest of the world!
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Tips
This wiki will be your team’s first interaction with the rest of the world, so here are a few tips to help you get started:
- State your accomplishments! Tell people what you have achieved from the start.
- Be clear about what you are doing and how you plan to do this.
- You have a global audience! Consider the different backgrounds that your users come from.
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- Avoid using very small fonts and low contrast colors; information should be easy to read.
- Start documenting your project as early as possible; don’t leave anything to the last minute before the Wiki Freeze. For a complete list of deadlines visit the iGEM 2016 calendar
- Have lots of fun!
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