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Revision as of 06:34, 24 October 2007

Brown University
Home Lead Sensor Tristable Switch Community Supplemental About us
Celluar Lead Sensor

Lead poisoning is a public health concern - there is lead in soil, paint, water, and dust. Lead Poisoning is often caused by ingesting contaminated drinking water, or soil. It can cause neurological and gastrointestinal disorders, especially among children.

The legal limit of lead in drinking water is 15 parts per billion.

Current ways of testing for lead either require expensive chemical lab analysis or involve inaccurate home kits.

A lead detector, based on E. Col, is cheap, sensitive, quick, and specific

Our system involves a Lead detecting promoter, an amplifier, and an output of GFP. We're also working on a system to remove false positives.

Tristable Switch

The Tri-Stable Toggle Switch represents a continuation on the theme of the Toggle Switch begun by Gardner, et al 2000. The switch produces three distinct and stable outputs in response to three distinct inputs. Our approach to solving the switch is based on quantitative measurements in a pioneering effort to establish a standardized means of designing and debugging biological systems.

  Links
Brown iGem on Openwetware
Brown iGem Official Website
Check out our Videos!
 News Updates
08.28.07
Nanodrop donates ND-1000 Spectrophotometer and ND-3300 Fluorospectrophotometer to Brown iGEM

08.22.07

Brown iGEM Team presents its August Update to faculty and friends

08.20.07

Nanodrop it like it's hot! (YouTube Link)

08.08.07

We'll be hosting several iGEM Teams here at Brown University on August 18th for the iGEM 2007 Meetup. Teams will present their progress to each other and discuss the future of Synthetic Biology.

06.07.07

$25,000 grant from Pfizer for equipment purchases

06.01.07

Labnet sponsors Brown iGEM with vortex mixers, a microcentrifuge, pipettes, and autopipettes.

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