Detecting Disease In Less Than 60 Seconds!

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1. Guest7214
   

   Chemists and immunologists devised a new rapid system for detecting and identifying viruses. It uses surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to measure the frequency of near-infrared laser light as it scatters off viral DNA and RNA. After a swab of a person's nasal passage, the technique can detect individual virus particles quickly.
   
   Researchers say the rapid response system can detect viruses from a nasal swab in one minute or less.
   
   "We can detect within 30 seconds -- 30 to 60 seconds -- the molecular fingerprint of a virus or bacteria based on its nucleic acid sequence," says Ralph Tripp, Ph.D., a viral immunologist for the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia.
   
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2. Guest5403
   

   wow this is great but only problem with it is to wait for two hours before the doc sees you.  if you can make it through the waiting room nightmare, doc's already take about a minute to see what is wrong with you.  now with this latest break, they take their 60 seconds and you will get the results in about two weeks.  what a breakthrough
   
   

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