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The suspension chamber experiment was rendered untestable due to several factors: | The suspension chamber experiment was rendered untestable due to several factors: |
Revision as of 19:32, 3 October 2012
The Millikan Apparatus
In order to test our newly engineered organisms in an aerosolized environment, the team aimed to modify a Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus into a functioning suspension chamber.
The suspension chamber experiment was rendered untestable due to several factors:
- The engineering of the Millikan Apparatus viewing scope to excite and detect fluorescence was impractical and challening.
- Control tests on evaporation in the chamber indicated that droplets would evaporate in under 10 minutes; a timescale too quick for studying cell replication.
- Insufficient time and resources to perform successful experiments.
However, we successfully created cell-growth dependent promoters that function as remote biosensors; while our efforts in mechanical engineering were not so fruitful, the synthetic biology component was quite successful!