Team:Bio Without Borders/Human Practices

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Human Practices

This year, as we worked on our project, we also considered what sort of effects our final diagnostic product would have besides on the horseshoe crab population. Upon further research, we discovered a few different assays that worked in a similar fashion to ours, however, most of the assays use equipment that is both expensive and highly-inaccessible. We decided to make our assay a simple, user-friendly tool in order to increase its accessibility. Once we completed this, we wondered how it would affect and if it would even be applicable to to our larger society. We decided to contact the Ugandan iGEM team to learn if our diagnostic tool would be necessary.