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Vinayak P. Dravid leads breakthrough in water contamination detection
The system developed by the Indian professor and his team at Northwestern University uses silicon microcantilevers coated with custom-designed DNA molecules.
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Saheba - Tue, 04, Mar 2025
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Professor Vinayak P. Dravid / LinkedIn
Professor Vinayak P. Dravid, a leading Indian nanotechnology expert at Northwestern University, Illinois, has played a pivotal role in the development of a groundbreaking water contamination detection tool. This new technology combines microcantilever systems with synthetic biology to create a highly sensitive platform capable of detecting toxic metals like lead and cadmium at extremely low concentrations.
"Microcantilevers can give you a faster turnaround, within two or three minutes, because they leverage specific affinity surface binding. And unlike most sensors available that rely on just one protein, we can look at multiple targets at the same time," stated Vinayak P. Dravid.
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