Team:Brown

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Brown iGEM's 2008 Team focused on designing a novel electrical reporting system that could be used as a method of toxin detection, particularly in third-world countries, where water pollution is a prevalent problem.

Through the use of a lysis gene cassette bound to an inducible promoter in E.coli bacteria, the biosensor will have the ability to detect the presence of a certain inducer (for example a water toxin)and report that information back via a change in the conductance of the bacterial solution.

See the video for a team & project overview!

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-     <td><p>Brown iGEM's 2008 Team focused on designing a novel electrical reporting system that has applications in toxin detection, particularly for third-world countries, where water pollution is prevalent. </p>
+     <td><p>Brown iGEM's 2008 Team focused on designing a novel electrical reporting system that could be used as a method of toxin detection, particularly in third-world countries, where water pollution is a prevalent problem. </p>
-       <p>Our biosensor has the  ability to detect the presence of a certain inducer (for example a water  contaminant or toxin), and report that information back via a change in the  conductance of the bacterial solution using a Lysis  Gene Cassette bound to an inducible promoter.</p>
+       <p>Through the use of a lysis gene cassette bound to an inducible promoter in E.coli bacteria, the biosensor will have the  ability to detect the presence of a certain inducer (for example a water toxin)and report that information back via a change in the  conductance of the bacterial solution. </p>
        <p>See the video for a team &amp; project overview!</p>
        <p><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2008/f/f7/Brown_igem_logo2.png" width="337" height="267" border="0" align="center"/></p>