Portable biosensor

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Cambridge scientists have received funding to create a portable biosensor that could detect desease quickly and cheaply.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are part of a team which has just been awarded a grant of nearly £1million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to create a biosensor device which would be able to detect diseases in humans quickly and cheaply.

The device would be small and portable and would be able to detect cancer, as well as infectious viruses such as avian flu. Similar to a mobile phone, it could be used at a patient's bedside as well as in the field.

The Cambridge branch of the project is being led by Dr. Paul Ko Ferrigno from the MRC Cancer Cell Unit and Professor Piero Migliorato from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering. Others include Dr. Jason Davis from the Oxford University Chemistry Department and Dr. Ejaz Huq from the Central Microstructure Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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