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Arizona State University

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At the core of a new diagnostic test created by ASU researchers are tiny gold nanoparticles, engineered to detect extremely small amounts of disease-related proteins. The device is so sensitive that it can detect disease from just a few hundred molecules in an extremely small fluid sample — a fraction of a single drop. This sensitivity is nearly 100,000 times greater than that of standard laboratory tests.

 

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