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As the final goal of our project is to make a portable test paper, which not only require the test paper can be taken without any special treatment, but also require the test paper can be used for a certain period of time.

The core design and procedure to meet the first requirement is to extract the yeast in to nonbiological activity powder. Thus, we test if the modified yeast can be transformed to dry powder just as the baker powder under experiment facilities.

To see the protocol of making the yeast powder, please see “achievement- protocol”. Note The protocol is created by our team.

According to the protocol we created by ourselves, we transformed the reconstructed yeast into dry powder successfully. (Figure shows below)

Figure 1. Yeast dry powder.

To test if the yeast powder made under our method can be stored for a comparably long time . We sealed and stored the dry powder under room temperature for respectively one and two week.

Then reactivated the yeast dry powder by adding the growing medium for yeast and incubate at room temperature (approximately 30 degree). As can be seen from the incubation plate, after 12 hours incubation, the yeast reactivated and grow up on the plate very well.

Figure 2. Reactivated yeast after incubation.

Figure 3. Reactivated yeast after incubation.

The reactivation efficiency of yeast dry powder. The dry powder is dissolved in water and diluted into different “concentration” , pulled on the growth medium for yeast and incubate under room temperature for 12hrs. Picture B. Even the yeast powder with 1:100000 dilution grows well on the plate. Picture C. The 1:10 diluted yeast dry powder growth cover the surface of medium.