Team:TU-Delft/BandAidSelection
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Band Aid as a Final application
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The main focus of our project is to engineer E.coli that can detect MRSA in order to locally produce and deliver antimicrobial peptides against it.This project may have implications to society, especially if the mechanism is put into a real application. This fact made as think of the application that would be the best for our project and we came out with the band aid idea!
By using the band aid, the safety of the real application can be ensured in numerous ways. First of all, the complete system is enclosed into the band aid and in that way it can be located on the wound without the existence of direct intact with the patience. Apart from this, by carefully selecting the band aid characteristics based on specific criteria the selective input/output of substances can also be assured. Specifically, the band aid pore size is set to a diameter of 0.22 μm in order to be impossible for the E.coli to escape from that band aid and to infect the patient but to be feasible for both the AIPs and the peptide to pass through.