LANL: New Biosensor Designed To Detect Toxins And More - 7:29 am
PEGASUS, the Portable EnGineered Analytic Sensor with aUtomated Sampling, is a miniaturized waveguide-based optical sensor that can detect toxins, bacterial signatures, viral signatures, biothreats, white powders and more, from samples such as blood, water, CSF, food, and animal samples. Courtesy/LANL
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A device from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers is not quite the Star Trek “tricorder” medical scanner, but it’s a step in the right direction.
The Portable EnGineered Analytic Sensor with aUtomated Sampling (PEGASUS) is a miniaturized waveguide-based optical sensor that can detect toxins, bacterial signatures, viral signatures, biothreats, white powders and more, from samples such as blood, water, CSF, food, and animal samples.
LANL: New Virtual Platform Shows Students The Science Behind Everyday Objects - 7:00 am
In 2018, Harshini Mukundan’s team at LANL was a finalist for R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Award for their Universal Bacterial Sensor, a diagnostic tool for doctors to detect any and all infections in minutes. It could be a public-health game-changer in the world’s resource-poor regions. Mukundan also is an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador, a high-profile role model for young women and girls, and a visionary behind See the Science. Courtesy/LANL
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What makes bread rise? Why does hand sanitizer keep you from getting sick? How does a microwave oven heat your food? These are just a few of the concepts covered in the new virtual learning platform, See the Science, unveiled in celebration of International Women and Girls in Science Day, Feb. 11, 2021.
Home | News & Events | Why science fairs matter in America Harshini Mukundan, a microbiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has spent years judging middle and high school science fairs. (Courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Harshini Mukundan, a microbiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has spent years judging middle and high school science fairs. (Courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory)
In the United States, high school science fairs are an important forum for students to explore what they’ve learned in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) while competing with their peers and flexing their creativity.
Science fairs help students apply what they’ve learned in STEM subjects in an innovative way. The students start with their own curiosity and, in some cases, figure out how to tackle pressing problems in society, said Harshini Mukundan, who has spent two decades judging middle and high school science fairs at the local and regional lev