Team:TU-Delft

Snifferomyces: A Tuberculosis Screening Automaton

This year 9 students from TU Delft and 1 student from Leiden along with 7 advisors come together to form team "Snifferomyces" with a goal of providing sniffing capabilities to yeast to achieve rapid and a cost effective diagnosis system for Tuberculosis.
The 2012 project of the TU Delft iGEM team, draws inspiration from the sniffer rats which can be trained to sniff out unexploded landmines and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis infects around 8 million people a year and kills approximately 2 million. Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for a long time, so a rapid diagnosis system can help curb the spread of the disease.

Collaborations are welcome. Don't hesitate to contact us if you need help on characterizing your system of fluorescent outputs. We have setups of flow cytometry, TIRF, spinning disc confocal microscopy and more.
Please contact our Collaboration Manager - Yifan Pan: Y.Pan-2@student.tudelft.nl

Yes! We are at the National News!!! You can read the article from NRC Handelsblad here!
But this is not enough. We really need your enhancement in order to succeed to our effort. Please help us improve our world! Please find more information in our Crowdfunding Page.

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