Category: Featured Technology

Novel Biosensor could detect viruses with little preparation

Traditional virus diagnostic tools such as ELISA and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) remain strong diagnostic options, but they require significant infrastructure and sample preparation time. Now a team of researchers led by Boston University Assistant Professors Hatice Altug (ECE) and John Connor (Microbiology, BUSM) has introduced a novel biosensor that directly detects live viruses from […]

Featured Technology: Waste-to-Hydrogen Production

In our Featured Technology section we’ll highlight innovative technologies and new developments happening around the university- As a researcher in Uday Pal’s mechanical engineering lab, Boston University Alum (Ph.d Mechanical Engineering ‘10) Soobhankar Pati developed environmentally-friendly procedures to produce metals like magnesium, calcium and titanium. Pati’s research shifted from metals to clean energy. He, along with […]