Portable Device Can Detect Viruses In Minutes
May 29, 2009 | Source: ScienceDaily
A portable device that can show in five minutes is a person is infected with a particular virus or bacterium has been developed by Ostendum, a University of Twente spinoff.
When a micro-organism such as a virus is present in the sample being analyzed, it binds to the relevant antibody on the chip, creating an interference pattern that provides information about the quantity of virus particles present (University of Twente)