Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DN07cQI3q01/Gold nanoparticles, coated with specific antibodies to viruses, bacteria, or virtually any disease-causing agent, now form the basis of a diagnostic system 100,000 times more sensitive than current technologies and capable of delivering a result in about 15 minutes.  Molecular bioengineers at Arizona State University have developed the reagents and the detection device they’ve named the NasRED, which stands for Nanoparticle-Supported Rapid Electronic Detection.For example, when exposed to say antigens from CoVid viruses, the CoVid-antibody coated gold nanoparticles clump together and capably reflect light in the NasRed detector. This one-drop blood test can rapidly and precisely detect COVID-19, influenza, HIV, Ebola, and/or Lyme with unprecedented precision. Each test costs about two dollars, a fraction of the price of current lab methods.  The detection device is small and portable permitting its use in rural hospital and clinics.  Work is already underway t