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<p style="width:70%;margin-left:15%">Saliva contains a wealth of information about one’s health. In the doctor’s office, saliva samples are readily taken to screen for disease as well as measure hormone and other bioactive molecule presence. This year, team Queen’s Canada has developed a diagnostic pacifier with the ability to passively collect saliva, measure analytes present, and wirelessly transmit this data. The pacifier works by passively collecting saliva from the users mouth into the pacifier’s internal compartment through a channel in the nipple. The internal components would contain an immobilized protein biosensor (See Laboratory>Design). Once enough saliva has accumulated within the well type container, the proteins would react and produce a luminescent signal corresponding to analyte concentration. This luminescence would be detected by the built-in luminometer located directly behind the well which would transfer the information to the user device. Some of our considerations and investigations during our design process are summarized below.</p>
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Revision as of 00:16, 26 September 2018

Hardware

Overview

Saliva contains a wealth of information about one’s health. In the doctor’s office, saliva samples are readily taken to screen for disease as well as measure hormone and other bioactive molecule presence. This year, team Queen’s Canada has developed a diagnostic pacifier with the ability to passively collect saliva, measure analytes present, and wirelessly transmit this data. The pacifier works by passively collecting saliva from the users mouth into the pacifier’s internal compartment through a channel in the nipple. The internal components would contain an immobilized protein biosensor (See Laboratory>Design). Once enough saliva has accumulated within the well type container, the proteins would react and produce a luminescent signal corresponding to analyte concentration. This luminescence would be detected by the built-in luminometer located directly behind the well which would transfer the information to the user device. Some of our considerations and investigations during our design process are summarized below.

Something to link to go over what we considered and link to other pages.

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Hardware

Best Hardware Special Prize

iGEM is about making teams of students making synthetic biology projects. We encourage teams to work with parts and build biological devices in the lab. But we
are inclusive and want all teams to work on many other types of problems in synbio. Robotic assembly, microfluidics, low cost equipment and measurement hardware
are all areas ripe for innovation in synbio.

Teams who are interested in working with hardware as a side project are encouraged to apply for the hardware award.



To compete for the Best Hardware prize, please describe your work on this page and also fill out the description on the judging form.

You must also delete the message box on the top of this page to be eligible for this prize.

Inspiration

You can look at what other teams did to get some inspiration!
Here are a few examples: