Identifying Viruses with a Microfluidic Device and Raman Spectroscopy

“We [physicists and biochemists at Penn State] demonstrate that multiple emerging virus strains can be simultaneously enriched and optically detected in only a few minutes without using any labels. A portable platform that captures viruses by their size, coupled to Raman spectroscopy, resulted in successful virus identification with 90% accuracy in real time directly from clinical samples. Furthermore, this viable enrichment process enables further culturing and characterization by electron microscopy and deep sequencing. This microplatform is an effective disease-monitoring system and broadens virus surveillance by enabling real-time virus identification.” MORE

Image Credit:  Terrones Lab Penn State