Nanotechnology Sensor Shows Promise to Detect Disease with Drop of Blood

Nanotechnology Sensor Shows Promise to Detect Disease with Drop of Blood 150 150 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

An NJIT research professor known for his cutting-edge work with carbon nanotubes is overseeing the manufacture of a prototype lab-on-a-chip that would someday enable a physician to detect disease or virus from just one drop of liquid, including blood. “Scalable nano-bioprobes with sub-cellular resolution for cell detection”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, which will publish on July 15, 2013 but is available now online, describes how NJIT research professors Reginald Farrow and Alokik Kanwal, his former postdoctoral fellow, and their team have created a carbon nanotube-based device to noninvasively and quickly detect mobile single cells with the potential to maintain a high degree of spatial resolution.
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