Biotechnology Engineering

The walking tall

Walking Tall poles were created, which is a walking aid that combines the proven technique of Nordic Walking, which lifts muscle engagement from 50% to 90%, with the technology of the

Paralympic running blade - to create poles that would assist and propel users while reducing the jarring associated with traditional Nordic Walking poles. Aiming to empower users, Walking Tall helps de-stigmatize walking aids by being aesthetically pleasing, customizable, and functionally athletic.

Most importantly, with minor manufacturing additions which piggyback onto existing walking pole manufacturing processes, this product provides a highly cost-effective way to produce my Walking Tall poles thereby representing an accessible and commercially viable mechanism to decrease falls globally.

Mouth scope: Autonomous detection of oral precancerous lesions by fluorescent imaging: A microcontroller, cheek refractor, conical body, phone holder, LED strip, and Dichroic filter were used all to cover the work of the project.

Mouth scope works on the principle of auto fluorescence: it emits low-wavelength light, which excites fluorophores in normal mucosa and not cancerous tissues, causing cancerous tissues to have a darker color. The phone camera captures this and sends it to the machine learning model, which predicts with 86% accuracy.

Conical Body:

Scatters light from the LEDs to the entire mouth by preventing entry of external light in addition to focusing entering light on the filter.

Cheek Retractor:

Exposes the entire oral cavity.

Microcontroller: to control the intensity and wavelength of LEDs 450 nm dichroic long-pass filter at 45°: Only allows light above 450 nm wavelength to pass through LED Strip: Self-made LED strip to illuminate the mouth. Universal Phone Holder: Multidirectional adjustability with a spring-locking mechanism to hold the phone in place.

Enzymatic Inactivation of the Veterinary Antibiotic Florfenicol:

Florfenicol in aquaculture is the problem that the project aims to solve and it optimizes to mutant hydrolase enzyme to efficiently inactivate florfenicol; it can produce a matrix with immobilized hydrolase, motivate the development of products to inactivate the antibiotics florfenicol; and it is controlled is a Microscopy of immobilized hydrolase.

Enhanced Auricular Reconstruction:

The use of 3D printing technology with materials that incorporate viable living cells is mixed with a hydrogel (methylcellulose and alginic solution), which serves as support and nutrient medium; over time: implanted tissue can regenerate while synthetic implant resorbs.

Suitability: auricular cartilage: avascular and cellular homogenous, a simple structure suitable candidate for printed constructs.

The project aims to present an improved method for auricular reconstruction in addition to the use of 3D printing technology with materials that incorporate viable living cells and no exogamic material.

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