‘Tractor beam’ sensor could find cancer in blood
Source: https://www.futurity.org
A new discovery could lead to Star Trek-like biosensor devices that could flag the barest presence of a specific virus, antibody, or protein marker for cancer in blood—or sniff out airborne chemical warfare agents while they’re still far below toxic levels. The discovery follows years of work by Stephen Arnold, professor of applied physics at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering], who in 1995 discovered that an optical fiber could excite what he termed Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) in polymer micro-beads less than one-third the diameter of a human hair.