Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The size of a microscope slide holds 1,200 individual cultures of fungi or bacteria


"Maybe a few cells will do" - New palm-sized microarray grows 1,200 individual cultures.

Microarray developed by Srinivasan et al. and it could enable faster, more efficient drug discovery, say the authors who created the technology in their paper in mBio this week. Scientists at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston have developed a microarray platform for culturing fungal biofilms, and validated one potential application of the technology to identify new drugs effective against Candida albicans biofilms. The nano-scale platform technology could one day be used for rapid drug discovery for treatment of any number of fungal or bacterial infections, according to the authors, or even as a rapid clinical test to identify antibiotic drugs that will be effective against a particular infection.

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"Maybe a few cells will do" - New palm-sized microarray grows 1,200 individual cultures


























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