A new rapid fluorescence-based detection system for tuberculosis (TB) is under investigation in Germany, thanks to a €5.1 million, three-year project part-funded under the Photonik Forschung ...

Experts have agreed, for some time now, that the United States needs better COVID-19 testing. Eight months after SARS-CoV-2 virus first entered the country, diagnostic tests can still be hard to find, ...

Engineers from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (MO, USA), have received federal funding for a rapid COVID-19 test that will utilize newly developed technology ...

When conducting fluorescence imaging in various medical applications, practitioners typically use a powdered dye known as Indocyanine Green (ICG). ICG emits fluorescence between 750 and 950 nanometers ...

Quick assessment of trace blood components in untreated blood samples is possible with fluorescence tests but, in practice, blood’s strong autofluorescence interferes with the analysis. In the journal ...

A quick and simple fluorescent test can detect trace quantities of benzene in both liquid and vapor form. The new test uses paper strips impregnated with a supramolecular host-guest assembly system ...