Team:USP-Brazil/Applications

The device

How to design GMOs products?

The design is evolving toward the use of new materials, as the GMOs (Genetic modified organism). It is also learning about the necessities, constrains and possibilities that these materials offer. This year we had the possibility of design/create a container for our biosensor project. This has a user-friendly purpose and a biosafety purpose. You can read more about biosafety in our Biosafey page

In order to create our container we needed to established the necessities that it should responds;

Be portable

Helping to collect the sample

Prevent contamination of the sample

Contain a GMOs

We needed also to stablished the moments/steps of the user experience;

Taking the sample

Put in contact the GMOs with the sample, preventing GMOs releasing

Visualize the sample

Inactivation of the GMOs for proper disposal

After stablished these parameters, we began our creative process, thinking about the best way to respond to all theses constrains, we found that our best choice, because its simplicity and capacity to respond to our/client necessities was a pen/like structure. Knowing this, we developed several design possibilities having this structure in mind (Figure 1)

Figure 2: Fluorescent proteins expressed in an E. coli suspension. Respectively, amilCP BBa_K592009 (blue), amilGFP BBa_K592010 (yellow) and RFP BBa_E1010 (red). Image from the Registry of Parts.

Safe drink detector

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