Scientists identify harmful bacteria based on its DNA at a very low cost
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
Currently, the detection of food poison outbreaks caused by bacteria takes a long time and is expensive, but this does not have to be the case in the future. Researchers have found a method for the precise identification of bacteria in just a few hours on a mobile-phone-sized device that costs about 200 times less than alternative approaches.