Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 10:48 AM
A device of the size of a microwave has changed their lives and could also do it with that of millions of people worldwide. It’s about it PRINTERA ‘Mini Laboratory’ capable Print DNA of a battery – the most common organisms of the planet – and that is designed as a powerful tool that can be done in the medium term Make insulin, drugs, tissues or plastics at home. Beside this one Applications for health, industry, bioarte or fashionCould become a portable laboratory for educational centers that cannot afford to have large facilities.
One of the Objective of this multipremiado Project is to use this machine as an “laboratory processes automation system at low costs and to democratize synthetic biology to be accessible to the entire audience.”
Science to everyone’s reach. And this is what Roger Monfort tells that after 21 years this multidisciplinary team of ten young people leads from the Polytechnic University of Valenica and student of the degree in Biomedical Engineering after winning in Boston (US) the igem -synthetic biology competition; Best Hard Awards; Best Hard Awards; Best Hard Awards; Best Hard Awards; Best Hard Awards; Best Hard Awards; Best Hard Awards Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; Better Wiki; The ‘Champions League’ of the sector In which centers at the level of Harvard were measured, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College in London, Sorbonne or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which played at home this time.
A printer at home
Printia consists of one softwareA hardware and one Compact Laboratory Kit. And despite his appearance, it is just as easy to handle “like any domestic printer.” The input system “could look like ink cartridges”, where the biological components, “enzymes, bacteria, water and everything needed” are the process. It also has a reaction zone with “Metal Pixels, where all the magic of biology takes place”, and an output drawer “, which would look like the already printed paper” and that is “the bacteria that are already being transformed genetically,” explains Monfort.
The process is automated, so there is no room for errors. It also has a growth area of bacteria and sensors that warn you that you are doing well, because this machine can be used by people who will not have any knowledge of biotechnology, but the success of their creations is assured.
The procedure to offer new functions with bacteria takes approximately three hours. «It is time for you to win because you can do other things while Printia works. In this way we release the scientist from the most mechanized practices, because now many of them are being carried out by hand ». Never before has no Spanish team achieved such a result that is now experiencing its most complex challenge; Financing. «The ‘Solo’ price not only obtains visibility if you win in your country, but in the US. After those advertisements comes economic compensation. Money does not immediately give, but it is something indirects. Various medicines that are interested in the project are contacted with us, “concludes the leader of Igem UPV.
