{"id":34306,"date":"2017-02-08T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/faraday-rotation-spectroscopy-for-speedy-medical-testing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:44:09","slug":"faraday-rotation-spectroscopy-for-speedy-medical-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/faraday-rotation-spectroscopy-for-speedy-medical-testing","title":{"rendered":"Faraday Rotation Spectroscopy for Speedy Medical Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faraday-rotation-spectroscopy-for-speedy-medical-testing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucf.edu\">University of Central Florida<\/a> (UCF) in the US are combining nanoscience with the principle of Faraday rotation, a magnetic phenomenon discovered in 1845, in a new method for speedy medical tests.<\/p>\n<p>The team applied the magneto-optical technique, called frequency-domain Faraday rotation spectroscopy\u2014or fd-FRS, to characterize proteins, using antibody-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFd-FRS is a new way of looking at the interaction between light and magnetized material,\u201d says Shawn Putnam, assistant professor UFC\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cecs.ucf.edu\">College of Engineering &amp; Computer Science<\/a>. \u201cWe covered the surfaces of magnetic nanoparticles with a layer of biological sensors and measured their movement after exposure to their corresponding biological targets for detection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novuslight.com\/frequency-domain-faraday-rotation-spectroscopy-for-speedy-medical-testing_N6563.html\">http:\/\/www.novuslight.com\/frequency-domain-faraday-rotation-...N6563.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the US are combining nanoscience with the principle of Faraday rotation, a magnetic phenomenon discovered in 1845, in a new method for speedy medical tests. The team applied the magneto-optical technique, called frequency-domain Faraday rotation spectroscopy\u2014or fd-FRS, to characterize proteins, using antibody-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34306","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58808,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34306\/revisions\/58808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}