Nanomachine Detecting Microbiotics

History once tells antibiotics were invincible knights, until a fierce dragon befalled.

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In natural environment, many antibiotic substances are emitted into river in their active state, which caused tremendously challenges on human health and environment. Thus, this year we USTC develop NDM, a hardware trying to detect those molecules and hold back this situation. Advantages of NDM including:

Rapid

Detection won’t be based on fluorescence signal, however a brand new way! Then, how much time does a detection assay cost? 1 day? 100 min? Answer is 100 SECONDS!

SPRING

Spring, which is named after its inventer, is CACCI's sidekick. He helps CACCI in three aspects, which are the optical aspect, the hardware aspect and the software aspect. Using Michelson Interferometer,the optical part, Spring transforms the shape change of CACCI's membrane into the change of interference fringe. Spring's hardware, based on Raspberry–Pi, allows spring to take photos or videos of the fringe. At last, the software can analyse them and transmit the results to PC. CACCI depends on Spring.

ROSE

Meanwhile, we recruit ROSE to ensure our success. Two kinds of engineered bacteria make ROSE a wonderful director. Her mind is sufficiently logical, just like those three circuits we bulit for her,which allow her to know how many antibiotics are out of there,even when there are just trace of them. With the data provided by ROSE, the same mission as CACCI's can be done. Although ROSE may be a little slower than CACCI, but her traditional way becomes our insurance.