{"id":170863,"date":"2023-08-29T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mit-engineers-use-light-in-beads-to-swiftly-detect-pathogens"},"modified":"2023-08-29T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:27:14","slug":"mit-engineers-use-light-in-beads-to-swiftly-detect-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mit-engineers-use-light-in-beads-to-swiftly-detect-pathogens","title":{"rendered":"MIT engineers use light in beads to swiftly detect pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-use-light-in-beads-to-swiftly-detect-pathogens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known as Dynabeads, a novel optical signature within them confirms a target pathogen\u2019s presence in under a second.<\/p>\n<p>MIT engineers have discovered a new optical signature in a widely employed class of magnetic beads, enabling rapid detection of contaminants in various diagnostic tests.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, their study, accessible on ArXiv (awaiting peer review), highlighted the beads\u2019 newfound capacity to swiftly expose traces of the foodborne pathogen Salmonella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as Dynabeads, a novel optical signature within them confirms a target pathogen\u2019s presence in under a second. MIT engineers have discovered a new optical signature in a widely employed class of magnetic beads, enabling rapid detection of contaminants in various diagnostic tests. For instance, their study, accessible on ArXiv (awaiting peer review), highlighted the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170863","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}