{"id":95341,"date":"2019-08-27T03:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/using-a-smartphone-to-detect-norovirus"},"modified":"2019-08-27T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:03:01","slug":"using-a-smartphone-to-detect-norovirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/using-a-smartphone-to-detect-norovirus","title":{"rendered":"Using a smartphone to detect norovirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B75aalcM0EY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little bit of norovirus\u2014the highly infectious microbe that causes about 20 million cases of food poisoning in the United States each year\u2014goes a long way. Just 10 particles of the virus can cause illness in humans. A team of University of Arizona researchers has created a simple, portable and inexpensive method for detecting extremely low levels of norovirus.<\/p>\n<p>Jeong-Yeol Yoon, a researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering; Soo Chung, a biosystems engineering doctoral student who works in Yoon\u2019s Biosensors Lab; and Kelly A. Reynolds, Chair of the Department of Community, Environment and Policy in the Mel &amp; Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, led the project. The team published their results in <i>ACS Omega<\/i>, the official journal of the American Chemical Society, and Yoon is presenting the research at the ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting &amp; Exposition in San Diego this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvances in rapid monitoring of human viruses in water are essential for protecting public health,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cThis rapid, low-cost water quality monitoring technology could be a transformational tool for reducing both local and global disease burdens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of norovirus\u2014the highly infectious microbe that causes about 20 million cases of food poisoning in the United States each year\u2014goes a long way. Just 10 particles of the virus can cause illness in humans. A team of University of Arizona researchers has created a simple, portable and inexpensive method for detecting extremely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95341","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=95341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}