New approach for fast and cost-effective pathogen detection

Palm-sized test system that can simultaneously carry out up to thirty-two analyses of one sample

09-Feb-2024 - The ability to detect diseases at an early stage or even predict their onset would be of tremendous benefit to doctors and patients alike. A research team led by Dr. Larysa Baraban at the at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) develops intelligent, miniaturized biosensor devices and ...

Watching changes in plant metabolism – live

Researchers use a new method of in vivo biosensor technology

17-Aug-2020 - Almost all life on Earth, in particular our food and our health, depend on metabolism in plants. In order to understand how these metabolic processes function, researchers at the Institute of the Biology and Biotechnology of Plants at the University of Münster with the participation of the ...

Improved security for dairy products: Minilab identifies antibiotic residues in milk

12-May-2010 - No one wants antibiotic residues in their milk. But antibiotics are sometimes used even in the dairy barn. The routine tests conducted nowadays take hours to produce a result and do not test for all of the typical antibiotics. This gap can now be closed, thanks to a fully automated minilab ...