https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/disha-shukla/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.html(1) What I Would Like to Biomanufacture and Why Target product: A freeze-dried, paper-embedded cell-free diagnostic reagent that produces a visible colorimetric signal in the presence of Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS) nucleic acid from a vaginal or rectal swab collected at 35–37 weeks of gestation. To be precise about what is being manufactured here: the product is not a drug or a biomaterial but a sensing reagent - a biological system preserved on paper, distributed to a clinic, and activated by patient sample material. The living system’s job is to make that reagent, not to operate inside a patient in real time. This distinction matters, and it is why a cell-free biomanufacturing approach is particularly well-matched to this application.Hugoen