Want your bacteria identified – wait one second!
A team from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena have designed a SERS microfluidic system for swiftly analysing large sample sets of bacteria. Jürgen Popp and co-workers have combined the benefits that a lab-on-a-chip provides – a well defined detection area – with the sensitivities of SERS for fast, reproducible spectra every time. Their novel sample technique, which involves sonicating the bacteria to break down the cell walls, avoids previous problems with spectral fluctuations and sample inhomogeneity.
Read how they did it here – the article is free to access until the end of February!
Towards a fast, high specific and reliable discrimination of bacteria on strain level by means of SERS in a microfluidic device
Angela Walter, Anne März, Wilm Schumacher, Petra Rösch and Jürgen Popp
Lab Chip, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00536C, Paper
