Team Mercury Meeting 1

We had our first meeting with Dr. Wasser about a week ago. We all researched the topic before the meeting to give us some general background on our cells, pancreatic beta cells. We learned that these cells produce insulin and when the membrane potentials are not correct, the production of insulin stops and diabetes is the result. In our meeting, Dr. Wasser gave us ideas on how find more information and what kind of things we need to consider in the design of our nano machine. After our meeting with Dr. Wasser we decided that everyone should continue general research on the cells so we all could get a better understanding of how they do their job. Our second team meeting is scheduled for Sunday October 2. We will use this meeting to prepare our research and ideas for our meeting with Dr. Wasser on Wednesday.