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SnapLab, the portable cholera detection kit

Gold Medal at the iGEM Competition for Noreen and Cassandra



​Two Master 1 students at our institute, Noreen Louis and Cassandra Vivier-Baudry, were awarded a Gold Medal at the iGEM Synthetic Biology Competition at MIT in Boston.

Published on 16 November 2017
The team consisted of 10 students from various backgrounds (biomedical engineering, infectiology, biotechnology) and gathered around a single project: SnapLab, the portable cholera detection kit.

The aim of the project was to develop a device that will make it possible, from a stool sample, to determine whether the person is infected with cholera or not. The results of the analyzes will be collected on a larger scale, in order to map the disease in certain geographical areas.



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