Rapid Liposomal Assay for Beta-hemolytic Microorganisms

27 September 2017, Singapore – A team of researchers led by Dr Ian Cheong from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) has successfully created a miniaturized and cost-effective test kit for bacterial pathogen detection. The new rapid test kit can produce highly accurate results in hours, a remarkable improvement over the current conventional method using red blood agar which could take days, causing delays in diagnosis and treatment. These findings have been published as a research article in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Sensors.