{"id":233023,"date":"2026-03-11T03:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/miniature-laser-technology-could-bring-lab-testing-into-your-home"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:29:27","slug":"miniature-laser-technology-could-bring-lab-testing-into-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/miniature-laser-technology-could-bring-lab-testing-into-your-home","title":{"rendered":"Miniature laser technology could bring lab testing into your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/miniature-laser-technology-could-bring-lab-testing-into-your-home.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed new laser technology that could lead to tiny, cost-effective biosensors. The sensors integrate lasers and optics together on a centimeter-sized chip, which could move testing from hospitals to patients\u2019 homes. This, in turn, would free up hospital beds and reduce visits to clinics.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acssensors.5c01997\" target=\"_blank\">Flat Plasmonic Biosensor with an On-Chip Metagrating-Integrated Laser<\/a>,\u201d is published in ACS Sensors.<\/p>\n<p>By studying how various biomolecules interact with each other\u2014for example, antibodies in the immune system and xenobiotic antigens\u2014researchers can gain valuable insights leading to new medicines and vaccines or assess whether a sample contains signs of infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed new laser technology that could lead to tiny, cost-effective biosensors. The sensors integrate lasers and optics together on a centimeter-sized chip, which could move testing from hospitals to patients\u2019 homes. This, in turn, would free up hospital beds and reduce visits to clinics. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233023","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=233023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}