Team:Sheffield/project/device
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Overview
Our design process began with the idea of building a microfluidics device. We worked at the Insigneo Insitute for in silico medicine to test different designs and optimize the desired characteristics such as mixing times and flow rates. This idea evolved into several others such as the use of freeze-drying as a technique to store our engineered bacteria. Our final design is a capsule-and-chamber device that was better able to meet our requirements. The capsule-and-chamber device takes inspiration from how glowsticks work (yes, glowsticks!) wherein you bend and twist the tube which releases the engineered E. coli into the reacting chamber. This entire capsule is enclosed by an outer chamber which also detects the amount of fluorescence produced by our reporter system.
