{"id":116456,"date":"2020-11-29T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/sorting-out-viruses-with-machine-learning-ai-powered-nanotechnology-may-lead-to-new-rapid-covid-19-tests"},"modified":"2020-11-29T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T03:24:01","slug":"sorting-out-viruses-with-machine-learning-ai-powered-nanotechnology-may-lead-to-new-rapid-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/sorting-out-viruses-with-machine-learning-ai-powered-nanotechnology-may-lead-to-new-rapid-covid-19-tests","title":{"rendered":"Sorting Out Viruses With Machine Learning: AI-Powered Nanotechnology May Lead to New Rapid COVID-19 Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sorting-out-viruses-with-machine-learning-ai-powered-nanotechnology-may-lead-to-new-rapid-covid-19-tests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists at Osaka University develop a label-free method for identifying respiratory viruses based on changes in electrical current when they pass through silicon nanopores, which may lead to new rapid COVID-19 tests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing global pandemic has created an urgent need for rapid tests that can diagnose the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, and distinguish it from other respiratory viruses. Now, researchers from Japan have demonstrated a new system for single-virion identification of common respiratory pathogens using a machine learning algorithm trained on changes in current across silicon nanopores. This work may lead to fast and accurate screening tests for diseases like COVID-19 and influenza.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published this month in <i>ACS Sensors<\/i> scientists at Osaka University have introduced a new system using silicon nanopores sensitive enough to detect even a single virus particle when coupled with a machine learning algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Osaka University develop a label-free method for identifying respiratory viruses based on changes in electrical current when they pass through silicon nanopores, which may lead to new rapid COVID-19 tests. The ongoing global pandemic has created an urgent need for rapid tests that can diagnose the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,4,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116456","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}