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The advent of a diagnostic point-of-care device would substantially benefit healthcare systems worldwide. The development has proven to be difficult because there are very limited biosensors that achieve specific detection of macromolecules in complex media to date. The E-DNA scaffold architecture has demonstrated to be sensitive, specific and robust platform on which the development of macromolecule detection (such as antibodies) in real world samples has become possible. By using a specialized blocking solution, we have demonstrated the ability to detect a specific antibody in a complex medium such as undiluted whole blood in under an hour with little interference.
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 Download 2011 research project presentation as a PDF file | 4.99 MB |
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This project is an exploration of emerging hardware and software projects which share a common theme of being “open source” projects. Along with being generally innovative and engaging, open source projects are communal in their development and relatively low cost in their implementation. Developed and applied in this curriculum project is an interactive exercise using student-made graphite potentiometers, arduino sensors and the open-source educational software program “ManyLabs”. Two separate “Sensor Circuits” lessons were also investigated using ManyLabs and “LittleBits” hardware. Another direction briefly explored in this project is the low-cost open-source CNC hardware to conduct microscopy projects and as an autosampler in the classroom.
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Exploring Graphite Paint Potentiometers
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| Jesse RET presentation.pdf | 7.65 MB |
| Jesse's Intro.pdf | 277.9 KB |
 Lesson #1a:b Student Handout.docx | 217.86 KB |
| Lesson #1 Teachers Guide .pdf | 189.3 KB |
| Lesson#2 Student Handout.docx | 123.43 KB |
| Lesson#2 Teacher Guide.pdf | 221.92 KB |
| Lesson #3 Student Handout.docx | 341.33 KB |
| Lesson#3 Teacher Guide.pdf | 341.02 KB |