{"id":104157,"date":"2020-03-23T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/new-device-quickly-detects-harmful-bacteria-in-blood"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:24:19","slug":"new-device-quickly-detects-harmful-bacteria-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/new-device-quickly-detects-harmful-bacteria-in-blood","title":{"rendered":"New device quickly detects harmful bacteria in blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-quickly-detects-harmful-bacteria-in-blood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers have created a tiny device that can rapidly detect harmful bacteria in blood, allowing health care professionals to pinpoint the cause of potentially deadly infections and fight them with drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Rutgers coauthored study, led by researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, is published in the journal ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rapid identification of drug-resistant bacteria allows <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/health+care+providers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">health care providers<\/a> to prescribe the right drugs, boosting the chances of survival,\u201d said coauthor Ruo-Qian (Roger) Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have created a tiny device that can rapidly detect harmful bacteria in blood, allowing health care professionals to pinpoint the cause of potentially deadly infections and fight them with drugs. The Rutgers coauthored study, led by researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, is published in the journal ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces. \u201cThe rapid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}