Team Neptune

This Wednesday our group met with Professor Wasser for the first time to talk about the cell our group will be developing a nano machine for. Team Neptune has the cardiomyocyte cell and before the meeting we all did some preliminary research to understand more about our cell. From the preliminary research we discovered the cardiomyocyte cell makes up the majority of the heart and can be affected by thing such as heart attack and heart disease. At the meeting Wednesday, Professor Wasser was able to explain more about the design project and gave us some more ideas of where to look for information on our cell. He also let us know that we want to focus on creating a machine the helps restore a cardiomyocyte's ability to transfer ions across its membrane.