Friday, August 31, 2007

Nanotechnology for Rapid Detection of HIV and Other Viruses

Nanotechnology is the latest tool used by the scientist in U.S. for diagnosing viruses of the disease as fatal as HIV or as common as influenza. Researchers from the University of Georgia have devised a diagnostic test, which will save both time and lives of people suffering from fatal diseases. Since, this test will enable quick detection of natural outbreak of diseases or bio-terrorism attack. As per Ralph Tripp, who's the Lead author with the university's veterinary medicine college, the new technique measures frequency changes of a near infrared laser as viral RNA or DNA is scattered by it. The frequency changes are as discrete as fingerprints of each individual. While this phenomenon is an established one, previous endeavor of using spectroscopy to detect viruse View the rest of this article


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