{"id":228612,"date":"2026-01-09T01:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sensor-lights-up-to-reveal-scopolamine-a-common-substance-used-for-sexual-assault"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:15","slug":"sensor-lights-up-to-reveal-scopolamine-a-common-substance-used-for-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sensor-lights-up-to-reveal-scopolamine-a-common-substance-used-for-sexual-assault","title":{"rendered":"Sensor lights up to reveal scopolamine, a common substance used for sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sensor-lights-up-to-reveal-scopolamine-a-common-substance-used-for-sexual-assault2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia (UPV) has led the development of a new sensor capable of quickly and easily detecting scopolamine, one of the substances most commonly used in crimes of chemical submission, especially in sexual assaults. The sensor detects the presence of this drug in less than five minutes with high sensitivity. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/anie.202523575\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScopolamine is a substance that is difficult to detect using conventional methods, especially when found in drinks. For this reason, our group from the IDM Institute at the UPV set out to develop new, simple tools that can immediately alert us to its presence,\u201d says Vicente Mart\u00ed Centelles, a researcher at the Interuniversity Research Institute for Molecular Recognition and Technological Development (IDM) at the UPV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia (UPV) has led the development of a new sensor capable of quickly and easily detecting scopolamine, one of the substances most commonly used in crimes of chemical submission, especially in sexual assaults. The sensor detects the presence of this drug in less than five minutes with high [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228612","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}