The first prototype of lab-on-a-chip system for detecting microbes in water, food and air. (Photo credit: UA Biosensors Lab) (PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock. Detecting water and foodborne contaminants usually involves collecting a sample, sending it to a laboratory and waiting for it to be filtered, incubated, tested and identified under a microscope. If a critical infection...
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