Researchers from the University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, and several companies teamed up to form the Golden Gopher Magnetic Biosensing Team. Inspired by Dr. Jian-Ping Wang's vision of a low-cost, easy-to-use, accurate, portable GMR biosensing system, they have contributed their areas of expertise to build z-Lab and begin to design and construct z-Lab 2.0 and z-Lab 3.0.