Fusion Of Nature And Nanotechnology In Electric Yarn That Detects Blood

A carbon nanotube-coated "smart yarn" that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated. "Currently, smart textiles are made primarily of metallic or optical fibers. They're fragile. They're not comfortable. Metal fibers also corrode. There are problems with washing such electronic textiles.
Fusion Of Nature And Nanotechnology In Electric Yarn That Detects Blood

'Femtomolar Optical Tweezers' May Enable Sensitive Blood Tests

Cutting-edge "tweezers" are so sensitive that they can feel the tell-tale tug of tiny concentrations of pathogens in blood samples, yet don't ever need to be sterilized - or even held - as they are ephemeral and weightless. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has licensed a patented "optical tweezers" technique for detecting and measuring very small concentrations of a biological substance - such as a virus on a surface.
'Femtomolar Optical Tweezers' May Enable Sensitive Blood Tests