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UA’s Professor Linda Powers Developing Rapid, Disposable Tests for Blood-Borne Disease
| By Karina Barrentine - May 16, 2013, 8:25 pm
Building on research that sent her biking across Tanzania a couple of summers ago to test remote water sources on the spot for bacteria, University of Arizona Professor Linda Powers is moving into the diagnostic realm. The Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering is developing fast, disposable blood tests for pathogens that cause diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.
The novel technology for rapid pathogen detection in blood relies on the capture of the pathogens with specially designed binding mechanisms and the intrinsic fluorescent signatures of the live captured pathogens.
"This will save time, work and expense when detection of blood-borne disease organisms is needed and other facilities are not available," said Powers, who holds appointments in biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at the UA. "It quickl ...... (read more) |  | | Professor Linda Powers, shown here with one of her instruments in the Arctic, is taking her portable technology to a new level: diagnostics, checking blood for disease.
Powers credits UA College of Engineering Dean Goldberg with making the research contract happen.
"What an incredible extension of a hand of friendship to small businesses in the Valley," she said. |
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