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Revision as of 14:10, 1 November 2017

The fight against T. solium

The worldwide fight against T.solium is facing three different challenges

HIGH PREVALENCE

Estimated billions are affected, the infection causing epilepsy, blindness and death

INSUFFICIENT DRUG DISTRIBUTION

Although affordable therapeutics exit

EXPENSIVE DIAGNOSTICS

No method suited for field use

The vision of diagnost-x

Developing a low cost, easy-to-handle diagnostic test for infection with the tapeworm Taenia solium


Target Identification

Having 96 million RNAs sequenced and mapped them against about 12.000 Genes of T. saginata T. asiatica and T. solium, the expression level of unique RNAs was analyzed.

We identified 215 unique, potential diagnost-x targets.

The colour intensity is proportional to the expression of each identified possible target.

First direct RNA isolation (blau) from T. solium eggs without a manipulative hatching procedure and thereof performed transcriptome analysis


Sensor Design

Based on the analysis of the build-plan of different published toehold sensors, our In Silico Team generated a first generation of switches. Further optimisation based on testing results let us to the establishment of our software for in silico design. Selected Switches were furthermore tested in the following testing pipeline.

Refined preselection of promising sensors thanks to established software


Sensor Screening

The designed switches from the In Silico Team were furthermore assembled using Extension PCR with for every switch tailored primers. Assembled Sensors passed all through the standard screening in liquid phase.

6 successfully working sensors detected thanks to our high flow-through Screening Pipeline


Considerating future application from Day 1

Neglected Tropical Diseases...

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Raising awareness for T. solium

Neglected Tropical Diseases have few platforms in the eastern world since they don't affect people directly. We saw our mission also to a big extend in the fundamental raising of awareness for NTDs and education of a new generation.

Organisation of a congress with steakholders & 150 participants amongst many other activities


Target Identification

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