Article: Fast and Inexpensive Device Captures and Identifies Viruses Jan 2020

Sly Saint · Jan 8, 2020

A team of scientists led by The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA, USA) team developed a portable microfluidic platform containing carbon nanotube arrays with differential filtration porosity for the rapid enrichment and optical identification of viruses.

Different emerging strains (or unknown viruses) can be enriched and identified in real time through a multivirus capture component in conjunction with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. More importantly, after viral capture and detection on a chip, viruses remain viable and get purified in a microdevice that permits subsequent in-depth characterizations by various conventional methods.
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Mauricio Terrones, PhD, a professor and senior author of the study, said, “We have developed a fast and inexpensive handheld device that can capture viruses based on size. Our device uses arrays of nanotubes engineered to be comparable in size to a wide range of viruses. We then use Raman spectroscopy to identify the viruses based on their individual vibration.”
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full article here
https://www.labmedica.com/lab-techn...e-device-captures-and-identifies-viruses.html

research paper:
A rapid and label-free platform for virus capture and identification from clinical samples
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/12/26/1910113117

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