31/08/2026
In our continued efforts to support the iGEM Competition this year, we visited the team at Sheffield University to set up and train them up on the loan VANTAstar microplate reader they will be using for fluorescence and luminescence assays.
This team are working on Project DravEx to engineer exosomes so that they can cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver therapeutic antisense oligonucleotides to neurons. They are targeting mutations in the SCN1A gene, which causes a severe epileptic condition called Dravet syndrome.
Good luck!