Team:Cambridge/Tools/microMeasure

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:

• Peking: heavy metals
• Imperial: parasite detection
• Sheffield: cholera detection

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.