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Applied Design
This is a prize for the team that has developed a synbio product to solve a real world problem in the most elegant way. The students will have considered how well the product addresses the problem versus other potential solutions, how the product integrates or disrupts other products and processes, and how its lifecycle can more broadly impact our lives and environments in positive and negative ways. We have developed a multicellular, modular biosensor development platform to usher in a new era of biosensors. The platform aims to ease the design, implementation, and characterisation/optimisation stages of biosensor development in the following ways:
To confirm that our design could successfully be applied to all biosensor systems, we undertook a systematic review of all biosensors previously made in iGEM to identify design patterns. We showed how other tightly coupled designs could be converted to our modular framework. We also designed and implemented a range detectors, processors and reporters for others to use.
We hope our approach will lead to the more rapid, cost-effective and efficient development of a new kind of multicellular biosensor that will ultimately impact on human health, the environment and industrial processes to name but few.