Team:Brown

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.

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.

See the video for a team & project overview!