{"id":173401,"date":"2023-10-04T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/nano-mechanoelectrical-approach-increases-dna-detection-sensitivity-by-100-times"},"modified":"2023-10-04T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:23:54","slug":"nano-mechanoelectrical-approach-increases-dna-detection-sensitivity-by-100-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/nano-mechanoelectrical-approach-increases-dna-detection-sensitivity-by-100-times","title":{"rendered":"Nano-mechanoelectrical approach increases DNA detection sensitivity by 100 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-mechanoelectrical-approach-increases-dna-detection-sensitivity-by-100-times.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UMass Amherst researchers have pushed forward the boundaries of biomedical engineering one hundredfold with a new method for DNA detection with unprecedented sensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDNA detection is in the center of bioengineering,\u201d says Jinglei Ping, lead author of the paper that appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2306130120\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ping is an assistant professor of mechanical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/industrial+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">industrial engineering<\/a>, an adjunct assistant professor in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biomedical+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biomedical engineering<\/a> and affiliated with the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring of the Institute for Applied Life Sciences. \u201cEveryone wants to detect the DNA at a low concentration with a high sensitivity. And we just developed this method to improve the sensitivity by about 100 times with no cost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMass Amherst researchers have pushed forward the boundaries of biomedical engineering one hundredfold with a new method for DNA detection with unprecedented sensitivity. \u201cDNA detection is in the center of bioengineering,\u201d says Jinglei Ping, lead author of the paper that appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ping is an assistant professor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173401","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}