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New Sensor can Image Microbial Growth Quickly and with High Sensitivity

Guoan Zheng, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has developed a new sensor technology that can perform large-scale microbial monitoring with high spatiotemporal resolution and high sensitivity.

16 Nov 2021

Cactus Spines Inspire the Development of Sweat-Collecting Patch

A sweat-collecting patch has been developed using the principle based on how the cactus spines attract water.

5 Nov 2021

Novel Red Calcium Sensor Highly Effective at Detecting Calcium Signals in Cells

A team of researchers at Georgia State University has developed a novel approach for detecting the activity of calcium within cells.

20 Oct 2021

Novel, Rapid Antigen-Based COVID-19 Detection Method Uses a Nanomechanical Sensor Platform

New variants to the COVID-19 virus have challenged the capacity of existing testing methods to deliver fast and consistently accurate test results, as PCR tests must be sent to labs and can take days to be returned.

8 Oct 2021

New Method Detects Hormonally Active Compounds Using Immobilized Sulfotransferases and Microparticles

A new technique has been presented by researchers from the Universities of Dresden and Leipzig for hormonally detecting active substances present in water, cosmetics, and food.

8 Oct 2021

Real-Time Tracking of Brain Activity Using Flexible Multifunctional Neural Interface

The measurement of the electrical activity of neurons tends to be useful in several fields; however, it is considered to be difficult to create a durable neural interfacing brain chip implant with negligible adverse effects.

4 Oct 2021

Researchers Develop Biosensors to Measure Antibiotics in Mammals

A group of biotechnologists and engineers from the University of Freiburg demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to determine the concentration of antibiotics in the body of mammals using breath samples.

22 Sep 2021

New Low-Cost Sensor can Detect and Accurately Measure Glyphosate in Beverages

A newly developed, low-cost sensor can detect and accurately measure the amount of the widely used and controversial herbicide, glyphosate, in droplets of liquid in a laboratory test.

15 Sep 2021

Novel Sensor can Revolutionize Screening for Herbicide Resistance in Plants

Researchers have developed the first-ever nanosensor to facilitate the rapid testing of synthetic auxin plant hormones. The novel nanosensors are safer and less difficult than the available approaches for testing a plant’s response to compounds like herbicide.

3 Sep 2021

Novel Biosensor for Multiparametric Express-Testing in Preclinical Diagnostics

Biochemical methods for diagnosis are one of the most accurate ways nowadays. In the case of biochemical diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases, medical professionals assess the level of cardiac markers in blood—unique proteins hidden in the cells of a cardiac muscle.

25 Aug 2021