{"id":236727,"date":"2026-05-07T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/harmless-viruses-trap-salmonella-on-flexible-polymer-in-portable-microfluidic-sensor"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:09:13","slug":"harmless-viruses-trap-salmonella-on-flexible-polymer-in-portable-microfluidic-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/harmless-viruses-trap-salmonella-on-flexible-polymer-in-portable-microfluidic-sensor","title":{"rendered":"Harmless viruses trap Salmonella on flexible polymer in portable microfluidic sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harmless-viruses-trap-salmonella-on-flexible-polymer-in-portable-microfluidic-sensor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect the bacteria Salmonella enterica (S. enterica), an advance that could lead to new ways of finding contamination in the food supply. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsabm.5c01652\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal ACS Applied Bio Materials.<\/p>\n<p>The group, led by Yuxiang \u201cShawn\u201d Liu, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, reports that the technology can rapidly capture and visualize foodborne bacterial contaminants in tiny fluid samples. With no need for incubation or complicated equipment in research centers, the technology has the potential to be used as a rapid biosensor in field applications and in areas with few resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a solid surface that can be used anywhere in the food supply chain, from farm to fridge, to detect foodborne bacteria with minimum human intervention,\u201d Liu says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect the bacteria Salmonella enterica (S. enterica), an advance that could lead to new ways of finding contamination in the food supply. The work is published in the journal ACS Applied Bio Materials. The group, led by Yuxiang \u201cShawn\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236727","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=236727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}