What we do
Our Three Goals
The Core of Our Project
Aptamers are single-strand DNA molecules that hold nature’s most important information: our genetic code.
But instead of using DNA for carrying information, our aptamers depend on DNA’s 3-dimensional shape. We genetically engineer this shape to take hold of and mesh with our target molecule.
DNA’s unique role in nature gives aptamers amazing characteristics, making them robust, stable, and cheap to produce.
When Robots Make Aptamers
What could be better? How about robots that discover new aptamers every day, expanding the detection from cholera prevention to other diseases
And how? Using an affordable and widespread pipetting robot, the OpenTrons-2, to automatize the entire aptamer-discovery protocol.
All this information will be published under the Creative Commons license, so this system will not be limited to our goals, but will be open to everyone who wants to take up the aptamer project.
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