Illustration of the principle underlying the detection of trace amounts of proteins (IMAGE)

Osaka Metropolitan University

Illustration of the principle underlying the detection of trace amounts of proteins

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Osaka Metropolitan University researchers introduced target proteins and probe particles with modified antibodies selectively binding to the target proteins into a small channel and applied irradiation with infrared laser light. They achieved, for the first time, the rapid measurement of trace amounts of attogram-level target proteins after only 3 minutes of laser irradiation.

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Takuya Iida, OMU

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