Research
Feb 15, 2007
Nowhere to hide for viruses
With mainstream media and politicians working themselves into a daily lather about bioterrorism and pandemic flu, virus detection is currently right up there on the research agenda. The trouble is, existing detection technologies require laborious sample preparation and take days to produce a result, by which time a subject could already have died or passed on the disease. Now, however, optics-based detection schemes are emerging that can differentiate between viruses within minutes.
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