Fighting Parkinson's with carbon nanoparticles
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 08:50
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the problems affecting the human nervous system is dopamine deficiency. But testing of dopamine concentration is costly and requires sophisticated equipment not available in a doctor's office. Enter a team of Polish scientists who developed a method enabling the detection of dopamine in solutions both easily and cheaply, even in the presence of interferences. The results are published in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.