{"id":206013,"date":"2025-02-10T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-unveil-breakthrough-biosensor-for-rare-earth-metal-detection"},"modified":"2025-02-10T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:07:23","slug":"scientists-unveil-breakthrough-biosensor-for-rare-earth-metal-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-unveil-breakthrough-biosensor-for-rare-earth-metal-detection","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Biosensor for Rare Earth Metal Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unveil-breakthrough-biosensor-for-rare-earth-metal-detection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUT researchers created a biosensor using engineered proteins to detect and extract rare earth elements, offering a potential solution to growing demand and environmental challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/queensland-university-of-technology\/\">QUT<\/a> synthetic biologists have developed a prototype for an innovative biosensor capable of detecting rare earth elements, with the potential for modification to suit various other applications.<\/p>\n<p>Lanthanides (Lns) are essential elements used in electronics, electric motors, and batteries. However, current extraction methods are costly, environmentally damaging, and unable to meet the growing demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT researchers created a biosensor using engineered proteins to detect and extract rare earth elements, offering a potential solution to growing demand and environmental challenges. QUT synthetic biologists have developed a prototype for an innovative biosensor capable of detecting rare earth elements, with the potential for modification to suit various other applications. Lanthanides (Lns) are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206013","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=206013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}