{"id":183590,"date":"2024-02-25T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/research-team-develops-nanoscale-device-for-brain-chemistry-analysis"},"modified":"2024-02-25T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:26:06","slug":"research-team-develops-nanoscale-device-for-brain-chemistry-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/research-team-develops-nanoscale-device-for-brain-chemistry-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Research team develops nanoscale device for brain chemistry analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-develops-nanoscale-device-for-brain-chemistry-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longstanding challenges in biomedical research such as monitoring brain chemistry and tracking the spread of drugs through the body require much smaller and more precise sensors. A new nanoscale sensor that can monitor areas 1,000 times smaller than current technology and can track subtle changes in the chemical content of biological tissue with sub-second resolution, greatly outperforming standard technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The device, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is silicon-based and takes advantage of techniques developed for microelectronics manufacturing. The small device size enables it to collect chemical content with close to 100% efficiency from highly localized regions of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tissue<\/a> in a fraction of a second. The capabilities of this new nanodialysis device are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.3c09776\">reported<\/a> in the journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our nanodialysis device, we take an established technique and push it into a new extreme, making <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biomedical+research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biomedical research<\/a> problems that were impossible before quite feasible now,\u201d said Yurii Vlasov, a U. of I. electrical &amp; computer engineering professor and a co-lead of the study. \u201cMoreover, since our devices are made on silicon using microelectronics fabrication techniques, they can be manufactured and deployed on large scales.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longstanding challenges in biomedical research such as monitoring brain chemistry and tracking the spread of drugs through the body require much smaller and more precise sensors. A new nanoscale sensor that can monitor areas 1,000 times smaller than current technology and can track subtle changes in the chemical content of biological tissue with sub-second resolution, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183590","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=183590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}