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* [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Peking/Project/Biosensor Peking]: heavy metals | * [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Peking/Project/Biosensor Peking]: heavy metals | ||
* [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College_London Imperial]: parasite detection | * [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College_London Imperial]: parasite detection | ||
Revision as of 17:11, 23 October 2010
Future applications: Biosensors
An ever popular class of iGEM projects are those on biosensors. This year more teams than ever have dedicated their time to the development of biosensors:
It isn't black and white
There are a numerous existing reporters. However to our knowledge there are none which are both affordable and quantitative. Some teams attempt to solve this problem by using a series of wells sensitive to increasing concentrations of the substance. But this requires a great deal of work to tune the sensors correctly.
We have already shown that the amount of the light produced by a bacterial culture can be assayed affordably with our E.glometer. Such devices could be mass produced lowering production costs further and distributed with the bacterial biosensors.
