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So our solution to the old system of autoclave is to create a sterilization system that can sterilize media within 10 mins. This system is hussle free work as it implies the use of the components like heat, U.V. and alcohol, all this and other misellaneous parts to sterilze the desired media.  
 
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Project Inspiration and Description

Inspiration

Currently, in the world people wait for around 576 hours per year, waiting for their media to get sterilized, if they work in a lab, 6 days a week. For life-science researchers, this is a major setback because along with studies, if they want to pursue or conduct even the simplest of research, they have to make their media on their own and this requires waiting time of approx 2 hours per batch of media. It is often required to retire home instead of waiting, because even though the media might have been sterilized. This is a huge disadvantage for the researchers, especially ones that are enthusiastic about conducting extracurricular research or carry out projects. According to UNESCO, the scientific research field harbors around 7.8 million life-science researchers in the world as per 2013. 90% of these have to go home after setting up the autoclave and carry out their experiment the next day. 78% of these very life-science researchers lose motivation to carry out their projects due to the taxing waiting intervals.

Various fields require the usage of autoclave for minor procedures. Fields like botany, biotechnology, microbiology, zoology, biochemistry, and all other life-sciences fields seldom use these machines, and hence the life-science researchers are not necessarily taught about these procedures, which leads to less knowledge about the functioning or setting up of this machine. While our system is easily understandable by a layman also, just simply on the switch and pour the digested media, then watch the sterile media come out.

To this date, the old version of autoclave has not been upgraded. Even after years of advancement, no one has ever thought to improvise the system of media sterilization. According to our survey researchers never thought of new techniques can be as effective as an autoclave, even after autoclave is the 1st primary step. So as a part of the iGEM project, we have taken up this topic to develop a sterilization system to sterilize media.

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Project Description

So our solution to the old system of autoclave is to create a sterilization system that can sterilize media within 10 mins. This system is hussle free work as it implies the use of the components like heat, U.V. and alcohol, all this and other misellaneous parts to sterilze the desired media.

References

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