Team Neptune Brainstorming Meeting

Last Wednesday Team Neptune met in the library to begin brainstorm ideas for the function and design of our nano-machine. The focus of our machine is to repair cardiomyocyte cells, which have stopped functioning correctly due to bad ion channels. To combat this problem we came up with a couple of ideas involving a nano machine inserted in the cell, inserted in the cell membrane and a machine that would reside outside the cell. One thing we know for sure about our machine is that it will need to ability to measure the potential difference inside the cell and outside the cell. To determine which idea would be the best to refine, we decided more research needed to be done. We split up various areas and issues of the cardiomyocyte cell for each team member to research more in-depth and have the information ready to present for our next team meeting.