Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico

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Official Team Profile

The detection of various components in a safe and rapid way has been a challenge in modern science. Biosensors using genetic circuits in bacteria have been made, which allows knowing whether the sensed component is present or not. Nowadays, it is known that certain levels of heavy metals in water can be dangerous for living organisms. For that reason, it is important to know the concentration of these metals, but the techniques for detection and quantification are complex and require expensive equipments.

And, that brings us to the aim of our project; the aim is to make a study model for quantifying heavy metals with fluorescent colors, depending on their levels of concentration. In order to do so, a biosensor will be made, based on three different fluorescent reporters. Additionally, this design could be improved in order to achieve higher sensitivity by adding more modules to the circuit. This design, as we mentioned previously, will be easier, faster, and cheaper than the other alternative, which is expensive, and complex.

This genetic circuit could be applied for building biosensors to detect the presence of heavy metals and semi-quantify them. This design will recognize the component that it is meant to be analyzed and give an approximation of the quantity. With the previous information, it could be useful to know if certain concentration is toxic for living organisms.

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 ===Project Description===
-The detection of various components in a safe and rapid way has been a challenge in modern science. Biosensors using genetic circuits in bacteria have been made, which allow knowing whether the sensed component is present or not.  Nowadays it is known that certain levels of heavy metals on water can be dangerous for living organisms. For that reason it is important to know the concentration of these metals, but the techniques for detection and quantification are complex and requiere expensive equipments.
+The detection of various components in a safe and rapid way has been a challenge in modern science. Biosensors using genetic circuits in bacteria have been made, which allows knowing whether the sensed component is present or not. Nowadays, it is known that certain levels of heavy metals in water can be dangerous for living organisms. For that reason, it is important to know the concentration of these metals, but the techniques for detection and quantification are complex and require expensive equipments.
-The aim of this project is to make a study model for quantifying heavy metals with fluorescent colors depending on their levels of concentration. In order to do so, a biosensor based on three different fluorescent reporters will be built. Additionally, this design could be improved in order to achieve higher sensitivity  by adding more modules to the circuit.
+And, that brings us to the aim of our project; the aim is to make a study model for quantifying heavy metals with fluorescent colors, depending on their levels of concentration. In order to do so, a biosensor will be made, based on three different fluorescent reporters. Additionally, this design could be improved in order to achieve higher sensitivity by adding more modules to the circuit. This design, as we mentioned previously, will be easier, faster, and cheaper than the other alternative, which is expensive, and complex.
-This genetic circuit could be applied for building biosensors to detect the presence of heavy metals and semi-quantify them. This design will recognize the component that it is meant to be analyzed and give an approximation of the quantity. According to that, it can be useful to know if the concentration is toxic for living organisms.
+This genetic circuit could be applied for building biosensors to detect the presence of heavy metals and semi-quantify them. This design will recognize the component that it is meant to be analyzed and give an approximation of the quantity. With the previous information, it could be useful to know if certain concentration is toxic for living organisms.
 ===Notebook===