Virus lasers for biological detection

Many ligand-binding assays still rely on signals that scale linearly with probe concentration. The authors present lasing detection probes with a dye-labelled virus as the gain medium to optically amplify the signal, which could enable much higher signals than for fluorescent quantification.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: John E. Hales, Guy Matmon, Paul A. Dalby, John M. Ward, Gabriel Aeppli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11604-z