Electrically induced arrangement improves bacteria detectors
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:42
in Biology & Nature
Viruses that attack bacteria—bacteriophages—can be fussy:They only inject their genetic material into the bacteria that suit them. The fussiness of bacteriophages can be exploited in order to detect specific species of bacteria. Scientists from Warsaw have just demonstrated that bacteriophage-based biosensors will be much more efficient if, prior to the deposition on the surface of the bacteriophage sensor, their orientation is ordered in an electric field.